John 14

¹“Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me.[#14.1 Or]

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?[#Jn 13.33.]

³And when 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 where I am going.”[#14.4 Other ancient authorities read]

⁵Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?”[#Jn 11.16.]

⁶Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.[#Jn 10.9; 1.4,14.]

⁷If you had known me, you would have known my Father also; henceforth you know him and have seen him.”

⁸Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and we shall be satisfied.”

⁹Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?[#Jn 12.45.]

¹⁰Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father 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 in me; or else believe me for the sake of the works themselves.[#Jn 10.38.]

¹²“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I go to the Father.

¹³Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son;[#Mt 7.7; Jn 15.7,16; 16.23; Jas 1.5.]

¹⁴if you ask anything in my name, I will do it.[#14.14 Other ancient authorities add]

¹⁵“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.[#Jn 15.10; 1 Jn 5.3; 2 Jn 6.]

¹⁶And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, to be with you for ever,[#Jn 14.26; 15.26; 16.7; 1 Jn 2.1.]

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 be in you.

¹⁸“I will not leave you desolate; 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 will live also.[#Jn 7.33.]

²⁰In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

²¹He who 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?”[#Acts 1.13; 10.40-41.]

²³Jesus answered him, “If a man 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.[#1 Jn 2.24; Rev 21.3.]

²⁴He who does not love me does not keep my words; and the word which 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 Counselor, 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.[#Jn 16.33; Phil 4.7; Col 3.15; Jn 20.19.]

²⁸You heard me say to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go 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.[#Jn 13.19.]

³⁰I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me;[#Jn 12.31.]

³¹but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go hence.[#Mk 14.42; Jn 18.1.]