John 14
1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
2 There are many rooms in my Father’s house. If that were not so, I would have told you. For I am going to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, so that where I am, you may be too.
4 And you know the way to where I am going.”
5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father too. From now on, you know him and have seen him.”
8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”
9 Jesus said to him, “I have been with you all this time, and you don’t know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on my own; rather, the Father, who remains in me, does his works.
11 Believe me: I am in the Father and the Father is in me. If not, believe because of the works themselves.
12 Truly, truly, I tell you: whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do, and will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.
13 And whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it.”
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever:
17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he remains with you and will be in you.
18 I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.
19 In a little while, the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you too will live.
20 On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”
22 Judas, not Iscariot, said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”
23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s, who sent me.
25 I have spoken these things to you while I remain with you.
26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of everything I have said to you.
27 I leave you peace; I give you my peace. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not be afraid.
28 You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I am coming to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.
29 And now I have told you this before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe.
30 I will not speak with you much longer, because the ruler of the world is coming. He has no claim on me.
31 But this is so the world may know that I love the Father and that I do as the Father commanded me. Get up; let’s leave here.”
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