Jesus also promises that we can share his own joy if we love one another as I have loved you . And Jesus goes on further to develop the depth of his love by calling us friends. I call you friends since I have made known to you all that I heard from my Father. Sharing of the things deepest and dearest to our hearts is the mark of friendship. Jesus shares his Father with us, as well as shares his sufferings.
Friends take on the sufferings of their friends.
Love one another. As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. So the Father loves the Son so much that he asks him to become man and die a terrible death for some of his wayward creation. And if the Son loves us just as the Father loves him we are still in the same speech of Jesus, so the comparison is clearly intended then that means Jesus may ask us to offer our lives, our suffering, for the sake of other s salvation. Love one another means not simply to hope they go to heaven, but that you are willing to die or suffer so that they may do so.