14:1 "Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. |
14:2 "In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. |
14:3 "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, {there} you may be also. |
14:4 "And you know the way where I am going." |
14:5 Thomas *said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?" |
14:6 Jesus *said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. |
14:7 "If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him." |
14:8 Philip *said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us." |
14:9 Jesus *said to him, "Have I been so long with you, and {yet} you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how {can} you say, `Show us the Father'? |
14:10 "Do 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 initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works. |
14:11 "Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves. |
14:12 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater {works} than these he will do; because I go to the Father. |
14:13 "Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. |
14:14 "If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do {it.} |
14:15 "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. |
14:16 "I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; |
14:17 {that is} the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, {but} you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you. |
14:18 "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. |
14:19 "After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you {will} see Me; because I live, you will live also. |
14:20 "In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. |
14:21 "He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him." |
14:22 Judas (not Iscariot) *said to Him, "Lord, what then has happened that You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world?" |
14:23 Jesus answered and said to 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 abode with him. |
14:24 "He 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. |
14:25 "These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you. |
14:26 "But 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 said to you. |
14:27 "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. |
14:28 "You heard that I said 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. |
14:29 "Now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe. |
14:30 "I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me; |
14:31 but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let us go from here. |