Jesus Comforts His Disciples

14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled.t You believeu in Goda;v believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going therew to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come backx and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.y 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”

Jesus the Way to the Father

5 Thomasz said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

6 Jesus answered, “I ama the wayb and the truthc and the life.d No one comes to the Father except through me.e 7 If you really know me, you will knowb my Father as well.f From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

8 Philipg said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”

9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.h How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me?i The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority.j Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.k 12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believesl in me will do the works I have been doing,m and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you askn in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

15 “If you love me, keep my commands.o 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocatep to help you and be with you forever—17 the Spirit of truth.q The world cannot accept him,r because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will bec in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans;s I will come to you.t 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me.u Because I live, you also will live.v 20 On that dayw you will realize that I am in my Father,x and you are in me, and I am in you.y 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.z The one who loves me will be loved by my Father,a and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

22 Then Judasb (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”c

23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching.d My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.e 24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.f

25 “All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Advocate,g the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,h will teach you all thingsi and will remind you of everything I have said to you.j 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.k I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubledl and do not be afraid.

28 “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’m If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father,n for the Father is greater than I.o 29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.p 30 I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this worldq is coming. He has no hold over me, 31 but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me.r

“Come now; let us leave.