1 “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe
in God. Believe also in me.
2 In my Father’s house are many homes.
If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am
going to prepare a place for you.
3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will
come again and will receive you to myself;
that where I am, you may be there also.
4 You know where I go, and you know the
way.”
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 also. 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, “Have I been with
you such a long time, and do you not know
me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen
the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the
Father’?
10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father,
and the Father in me? The words that
I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the
Father who lives in me does his works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and
the Father in me; or else believe me for the
very works’ sake.
12 Most certainly I tell you, he who believes
in me, the works that I do, he will
do also; and he will do greater works than
these, because I am going to my Father.
13 Whatever you will ask in my name, I
will do it, that the Father may be glorified
in the Son.
14 If you will ask anything in my name, I
will do it.
15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
16 I will pray to the Father, and he will
give you another Counselor, † that he may
be with you forever:
17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world
can’t receive, for it doesn’t see him and
doesn’t know him. You know him, for he
lives with you and will be in you.
18 I will not leave you orphans. I will
come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world will see
me no more; but you will see me. Because
I live, you will live also.
20 In that day you will know that I am in
my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
21 One who has my commandments and
keeps them, that person is one who loves
me. One who loves me will be loved by my
Father, and I will love him, and will reveal
myself to him.”
22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord,
what has happened that you are about
to reveal yourself to us, and not to the
world?”
23 Jesus answered him, “If a man 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 He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep
my words. The word which you hear isn’t
mine, but the Father’s who sent me.
25 “I have said these things to you while
still living with you.
26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit,
whom the Father will send in my name,
will teach you all things, and will remind
you of all that I said to you.
27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give
to you; not as the world gives, I give to you.
Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let
it be fearful.
28 You heard how I told you, ‘I am going
away, and I will come back to you.’ If
you loved me, you would have rejoiced
because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for
the Father is greater than I.
29 Now I have told you before it happens
so that when it happens, you may believe.
30 I will no more speak much with you,
for the prince of the world comes, and he
has nothing in me.
31 But that the world may know that I
love the Father, and as the Father commanded
me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go
from here.
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