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On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I in you.
John 14:20 · New American Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
  • KJV At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
  • BSB On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.
  • NKJV At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
  • NLT When I am raised to life again, you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

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Quick answer

In that coming day the disciples will know the mutual indwelling of the Father, the Son, and themselves. Salvation is union with the triune God.

Overview

'That day' points to the coming of the Spirit, who would reveal the deep reality of union: Jesus in the Father, and believers in Jesus and He in them. This mutual indwelling is the heart of Christian fellowship with God. Through the Spirit, believers share in the very life and love that exists between the Father and the Son.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • John 15:5–7I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
  • Gal 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
  • John 17:21–23that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
  • John 17:26I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
  • John 14:10Don’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.
  • 1 Jn 4:12No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
  • John 10:38But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”
  • Rom 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
  • 2 Cor 13:5Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? — unless indeed you are disqualified.
  • John 16:26In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you, that I will pray to the Father for you,
  • Col 1:27to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;
  • 2 Cor 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
  • Col 1:19For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him;
  • Col 2:9For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,
  • John 16:23“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
  • John 6:56He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
  • John 17:11I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
  • 1 Cor 1:30Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
  • Eph 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
  • John 17:7Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you,
  • 2 Cor 5:19namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
  • Rom 16:7Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who were also in Christ before me.
  • 2 Cor 12:2I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

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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.

How John 14:20 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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