John 14

Part of The Upper Room and Farewell Discourse📖 John introduction

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¹“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. ✦ ²In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. ✦ ³If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also. ✦ ⁴Where I go, you know, and you know the way.” ✦ ⁵Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ✦ ⁶Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. ✦ ⁷If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.” ✦ ⁸Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” ✦ ⁹Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ ✦ ¹⁰Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works. ✦ ¹¹Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake. ✦ ¹²Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father. ✦ ¹³Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ✦ ¹⁴If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it. ¹⁵If you love me, keep my commandments. ✦ ¹⁶I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever, — ✦ ¹⁷the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you. ✦ ¹⁸I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. ✦ ¹⁹Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also. ✦ ²⁰In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. ✦ ²¹One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.” ✦ ²²Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?” ✦ ²³Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. ✦ ²⁴He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me. ✦ ²⁵I have said these things to you, while still living with you. ✦ ²⁶But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you. ✦ ²⁷Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful. ✦ ²⁸You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I. ✦ ²⁹Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you may believe. ✦ ³⁰I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me. ✦ ³¹But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here. ✦

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John 14 ·41 John 16 ·33 John 17 ·21 John 10 ·16 John 6 ·16 John 12 ·16 John 15 ·14 John 8 ·12

Christ at the center

John declares him plainly: the eternal Word made flesh, the Lamb of God, the great 'I AM' — bread, light, door, shepherd, way, truth, life, resurrection — that you may believe and have life in his name.

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