John 14:1–12

Jesus Comforts His Disciples

14“Do not let your hearts be troubled.^t You believe^u in God^a;^v believe also in me. ²My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there^w to prepare a place for you? ³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back^x 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

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

⁶Jesus answered, “I am^a the way^b and the truth^c and the life.^d No one comes to the Father except through me.^{e 7}If you really know me, you will know^b my Father as well.^f From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

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

⁹Jesus 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’? ¹⁰Don’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. ¹¹Believe 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 believes^l 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.