John 14

₁“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God;believe also in me. ₂In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? ₃And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. ₄And you know the way to where I am going.” ₅Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ₆Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ₇If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

₈Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” ₉Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ₁₀Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. ₁₁Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.

₁₂“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. ₁₃Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ₁₄If you ask meanything in my name, I will do it.

₁₅“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. ₁₆And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper,to be with you forever, ₁₇even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will bein you.

₁₈“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. ₁₉Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. ₂₀In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. ₂₁Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” ₂₂Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” ₂₃Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. ₂₄Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.

₂₅“These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. ₂₆But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. ₂₇Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. ₂₈You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. ₂₉And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe. ₃₀I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, ₃₁but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.