John 14–16

The Way to the Father

14“Your heart must not be troubled. ^pBelieve ^qin God; ^rbelieve also in Me. ²In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; ^sif not, I would have told you. I am going away ^tto prepare a place for you. ³If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back ^uand receive you to Myself, so that where I am you may be also. ^v4You know the way to where I am going.” ^wx

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

⁶Jesus told him, “I am ^zthe way, ^athe truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Jesus Reveals the Father

⁷“If you know Me, you will also know ^bMy Father. ^cFrom now on you do know Him ^dand have seen Him.”

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

⁹Jesus said to him, “Have I been among you all this time without your knowing Me, Philip? The one who has seen Me has seen the Father. ^fHow can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? ^gThe words I speak to you I do not speak on My own. ^hThe Father who lives in Me does His works. ⁱ¹¹Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me. Otherwise, believe ^jbecause of the works themselves. ^k

Praying in Jesus’ Name

¹²“^•I assure you: The one who believes in Me ^lwill also do the works that I do. And he will do even greater works than these, ^mbecause I am going to the Father. ⁿ¹³Whatever you ask in My name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified ^oin the Son. ^p14If you ask Me ^qanything in My name, ^rI will do it. ^st

Another Counselor Promised

¹⁵“If you love Me, you will keep ^uMy commands. ^v16And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another ^•Counselor ^wto be with you forever. ¹⁷He is the Spirit ^xof truth. ^yThe ^•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 ^zin you. ^a18I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.

The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

¹⁹“In a little while the world will see Me no longer, ^bbut you will see Me. ^cBecause I live, you will live ^dtoo. ²⁰In that day you will know that I am in My Father, ^eyou are in Me, and I am in you. ²¹The one who has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me. ^fAnd the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father. ^gI also will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”

²²Judas ^h(not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it You’re going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?” ⁱ

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. ^j24The 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. ^k

²⁵“I have spoken these things to you while I remain with you. ²⁶But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit ^l—the Father will send ^mHim in My name—will teach you all things ⁿand remind you of everything I have told you. ^o

Jesus’ 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. Your heart must not be troubled or fearful. ^p28You have heard Me tell you, ‘I am going away ^qand I am coming to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced that I am going to the Father, ^rbecause the Father is greater than I. ^s29I have told you now before it happens ^tso that when it does happen you may believe. ³⁰I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of the world ^uis coming. He has no power over Me. ^vw31On the contrary, I am going away ^xso that the world may know that I love the Father. Just as the Father commanded Me, so I do.

“Get up; let’s leave this place.

The Vine and the Branches

15“I am ^ythe true vine, and My Father is the vineyard keeper. ²Every branch in Me that does not produce fruit He removes, ^zand He prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit. ³You are already ^•clean ^abecause 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, so neither can you unless you remain in Me. ^b

⁵“I am the vine; ^cyou are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him produces much fruit, ^dbecause you can do nothing without Me. ⁶If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown aside ^elike a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire, ^fand they are burned. ^g7If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you. ^h8My Father is glorified ⁱby this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be ^jMy disciples.

Christlike Love

⁹“As the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you. Remain in My love. ^k10If you keep My commands you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commands and remain in His love. ^l

¹¹“I have spoken these things to you so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. ^m12This is My command: Love one another as I have loved ⁿyou. ¹³No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life ^ofor his friends. ¹⁴You are My friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵I do not call you ^•slaves anymore, because a slave doesn’t know what his master ^pqis 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. ^rI appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask ^sthe Father in My name, ^tHe will give you. ^u17This is what I command you: Love one another.

Persecutions Predicted

¹⁸“If the ^•world hates ^vyou, 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 chosen ^wyou out of it, the world hates you. ²⁰Remember the word I spoke to you: ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ ^xIf they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, ^ythey will also keep yours. ²¹But they will do all these things to you on account of My name, ^zbecause they don’t know ^athe One who sent Me. ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin. ^bcNow they have no excuse for their sin. ²³The one who hates Me also hates My Father. ^d24If I had not done the works ^eamong them that no one else has done, ^fthey would not have sin. ^gNow they have seen and hated both Me and My Father. ²⁵But this happened so that the statement written in their scripture might be fulfilled: ^hThey hated Me for no reason. ^ij

Coming Testimony and Rejection

²⁶“When the ^•Counselor ^kcomes, the One I will send to you from the Father ^l—the Spirit of truth ^mwho proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me. ²⁷You also will testify, ⁿbecause 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. ^oIn fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service ^pto God. ³They will do these things because they haven’t known ^qthe Father or Me. ⁴But I have told you these things so that when their time ^rcomes you may remember ^sI told them to you. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

The Counselor’s Ministry

⁵“But now I am going away ^tto Him who sent Me, and not one of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’ ^u6Yet, because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. ⁷Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. ^vIt 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. ^w8When 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 ^xand you will no longer see Me; ¹¹and about judgment, ^ybecause the ruler of this ^•world ^zhas been judged. ^a

¹²“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now. ^b13When the Spirit of truth ^ccomes, He will guide you into all the truth. ^dFor 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 ^ehas is Mine. ^fThis is why I told you that He takes from what is Mine and will declare it to you. ^g

Sorrow Turned to Joy

¹⁶“A little while ^hand you will no longer see Me; ⁱagain a little while and you will see Me.” ^j

¹⁷Therefore some of His disciples said to one another, “What is this He tells us: ‘A little while and you will not see Me; again a little while and you will see Me’; and, ‘because I am going to the Father’ ^k?” ¹⁸They said, “What is this He is saying, ^l‘A little while’? We don’t know what He’s talking about!”

¹⁹Jesus knew they wanted to question Him, so He said to them, “Are you asking one another about what I said, ‘A little while and you will not see Me; again a little while and you will see Me’?

²⁰“^•I assure you: You will weep and wail, ^mbut the world will rejoice. You will become sorrowful, ⁿbut your sorrow will turn to joy. ²¹When a woman is in labor she has pain ^obecause her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, ^pshe no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world. ²²So you also have sorrow ^qnow. But I will see you again. Your hearts will rejoice, ^rand no one will rob you of your joy. ^s23In that day you will not ask Me anything.

“I assure you: Anything you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. ^t24Until now you have asked for nothing in My name. ^uAsk and you will receive, ^vso that your joy may be complete. ^w

Jesus the Victor

²⁵“I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no…