John 14:1–31

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.