John 14

Part of The Upper Room and Farewell Discourse📖 John introduction

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¹“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well. ✦ ²In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? ✦ ³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am. ✦ ⁴You know the way to the place where I am going.” ✦ ⁵“Lord,” said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?” ✦ ⁶Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. ✦ ⁷If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.” ✦ ⁸Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” ✦ ⁹Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ✦ ¹⁰Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works. ✦ ¹¹Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me—or at least believe on account of the works themselves. ✦ ¹²Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. ✦ ¹³And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ✦ ¹⁴If you ask Me for anything in My name, I will do it. ¹⁵If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. ✦ ¹⁶And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever— ✦ ¹⁷the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you. ✦ ¹⁸I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. ✦ ¹⁹In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live. ✦ ²⁰On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you. ✦ ²¹Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.” ✦ ²²Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?” ✦ ²³Jesus replied, “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. ✦ ²⁴Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me. ✦ ²⁵All this I have spoken to you while I am still with you. ✦ ²⁶But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you. ✦ ²⁷Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid. ✦ ²⁸You heard Me say, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I. ✦ ²⁹And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it does happen, you will believe. ✦ ³⁰I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me. ✦ ³¹But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here. ✦

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Concept The Helper (Paraclete)Concept The Way, the Truth, and the Life

Where this chapter connects

John 14 ·41 John 16 ·33 John 17 ·21 John 6 ·16 John 12 ·16 John 10 ·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.

How John 14 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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★ Start hereDocumentaryFollowing the MessiahAppian Media · Free · evangelical
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★ Start hereSermonMLJ Trust — Martyn Lloyd-Jones sermonsMartyn Lloyd-Jones · Free · reformed
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Decades of careful verse-by-verse expository sermons, especially through the New Testament. (MacArthur, d. 2025; archive remains free.)
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Tim Keller's gospel-centered preaching — sermons stream free (the complete downloadable archive is paid).
ArticleRecommended NT commentaries (9Marks / Schreiner)Thomas R. Schreiner · Free · reformed
A trusted pastor-oriented guide to the best commentary on each New Testament book.
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Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.
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In-depth, verse-by-verse expository teaching book-by-book — strong for working straight through a whole New Testament book.
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Watch Piper trace the logic of a passage phrase by phrase on screen — a model of close reading.

Seminary

★ Start hereApologeticsGary Habermas — the resurrectionGary Habermas · Free · evangelical
130+ free videos and lectures from the scholar behind the "minimal facts" method — the start-here on the historical evidence for the resurrection. (Only his books are paid.)
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The go-to mid-level exegetical commentary on John — rigorous and readable.

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VideoBibleProject — John videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical
Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.
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Sermons and chapter teaching from across YouTube.
CommentaryEnduring Word — John 14David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical
Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.
CommentaryMatthew Henry on JohnMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — John 14Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free
Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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