John 14–16

THE WAY TO THE FATHER

14“Don’t let your heart be troubled.^ah Believe^D in God;^ai believe also in me. ²In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going^aj to prepare a place for you? ³If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come again^ak and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be also.^{al 4}You know the way to where I am going.”^Eam

⁵“Lord,” Thomas^a said, “we don’t know where you’re going. How can we know the way?”

⁶Jesus told him, “I am^b the way,^c the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ⁷If you know me, you will also know^A my Father.^d From now on you do know him^e and have seen him.”

JESUS REVEALS THE FATHER

⁸“Lord,” said Philip,^f “show us the Father, and that’s enough for us.”

⁹Jesus said to him, “Have I been among you all this time and you do not know me, Philip? The one who has seen me has seen the Father.^g How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?^h The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own.ⁱ The Father who lives in me does his works.^{j 11}Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise, believe^B because of the works themselves.^k

PRAYING IN JESUS’S NAME

¹²“Truly I tell you, the one who believes in me^l will also do the works that I do. And he will do even greater works than these,^m because I am going to the Father.^{n 13}Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified^o in the Son.^{p 14}If you ask me^C anything in my name,^q I will do it.^r

ANOTHER COUNSELOR PROMISED

¹⁵“If you love me, you will keep^E my commands.^{s 16}And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor^t to be with you forever. ¹⁷He is the Spirit^u of truth.^v The world is unable to receive him because it doesn’t see him or know him. But you do know him, because he remains with you and will be^G in you.^w

THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT

¹⁸“I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you. ¹⁹In a little while the world will no longer see me,^x but you will see me.^y Because I live, you will live^z too. ²⁰On that day you will know that I am in my Father,^aa you are in me, and I am in you. ²¹The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.^ab And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father.^ac I also will love him and will reveal myself to him.”

²²Judas^ad (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it you’re going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”^ae

²³Jesus answered, “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.^{af 24}The one who doesn’t love me will not keep my words. The word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who sent me.^ag

²⁵“I have spoken these things to you while I remain with you. ²⁶But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit,^ah whom the Father will send^ai in my name, will teach you all things ^ajand remind you of everything I have told you.^ak

JESUS’S GIFT OF PEACE

²⁷“Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Don’t let your heart be troubled or fearful.^{al 28}You have heard me tell you, ‘I am going away^am and I am coming to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father,^an because the Father is greater than I.^{ao 29}I have told you now before it happens^ap so that when it does happen you may believe. ³⁰I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of the world^aq is coming. He has no power over me.^{Aar 31}On the contrary, so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do as the Father commanded me.

“Get up; let’s leave this place.

THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES

15“I am^as the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. ²Every branch in me that does not produce fruit he removes,^at and he prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit. ³You are already clean^au because of the word I have spoken to you. ⁴Remain in me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me.^{av 5}I am the vine;^aw you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit,^ax because you can do nothing without me. ⁶If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown aside^ay like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire,^az and they are burned.^{ba 7}If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.^{a 8}My Father is glorified^b by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be^B my disciples.

CHRISTLIKE LOVE

⁹“As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Remain in my love.^{c 10}If you keep my commands you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.^d

¹¹“I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.^e

¹²“This is my command: Love one another as I have loved^f you. ¹³No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life^g for his friends. ¹⁴You are my friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn’t know what his master^Ch is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my Father. ¹⁶You did not choose me, but I chose you.ⁱ I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask^j the Father in my name,^k he will give you.^l

¹⁷“This is what I command you: Love one another.

PERSECUTIONS PREDICTED

¹⁸“If the world hates^m you, understand that it hated me before it hated you. ¹⁹If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosenⁿ you out of it, the world hates you. ²⁰Remember the word I spoke to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’^o If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word,^p they will also keep yours. ²¹But they will do all these things to you on account of my name,^q because they don’t know^r the one who sent me. ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin.^s Now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³The one who hates me also hates my Father.^{t 24}If I had not done the works^u among them that no one else has done,^v they would not be guilty of sin.^w Now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵But this happened so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled:^x They hated me for no reason.^Ay

THE COUNSELOR’S MINISTRY

²⁶“When the Counselor^z comes, the one I will send to you from the Father^aa—the Spirit of truth^ab who proceeds from the Father—he will testify about me. ²⁷You also will testify,^ac because you have been with me from the beginning.

16“I have told you these things to keep you from stumbling. ²They will ban you from the synagogues.^ad In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service^ae to God. ³They will do these things because they haven’t known^af the Father or me. ⁴But I have told you these things so that when their time^B comes you will remember^ag I told them to you. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. ⁵But now I am going away^ah to him who sent me, and not one of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’^{ai 6}Yet, because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. ⁷Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth.^aj It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send him to you.^{ak 8}When he comes, he will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment: ⁹About sin, because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰about righteousness, because I am going to the Father^al and you will no longer see me; ¹¹and about judgment,^am because the ruler of this world^an has been judged.^ao

¹²“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.^{ap 13}When the Spirit of truth^aq comes, he will guide you into all the truth.^ar For he will not speak on his own, but he will speak whatever he hears. He will also declare to you what is to come. ¹⁴He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. ¹⁵Everything the Father^as has is mine.^at This is why I told you that he takes from what is mine and will declare it to you.^au

SORROW TURNED TO JOY

¹⁶“In a little while,^av you will no longer see me;^aw again in a little while, you will see me.”^C

¹⁷Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this he’s telling us: ‘In a little while, you will not see me; again a little while, you will see me,’ and, ‘Because I am going to the Father’^a?” ¹⁸They said, “What is this he is saying,^D ‘In a little while’? We don’t know what he’s talking about.”

¹⁹Jesus knew they wanted to ask him, and so he said to them, “Are you asking one another about what I said, ‘In a little while, you will not see me; again in a little while, you will see me’? ²⁰Truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn,^b but the world will rejoice. You will become sorrowful,^c but your sorrow will turn to joy. ²¹When a woman is in labor, she has pain^d because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child,^e she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world. ²²So you also have sorrow^A now. But I will see you again. Your hearts will rejoice,^f and no one will take away your joy from you.^g

²³“In that day you will not ask me anything. Truly I tell you, anything you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.^{h 24}Until now you have asked for nothing in my name.ⁱ Ask and you will receive,^j so that your joy may be complete.^k

JESUS THE VICTOR

²⁵“I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father. ²⁶On that day you will ask^l in my name, and^m I…