John 14

Part of The Upper Room and Farewell Discourse📖 John introduction

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¹Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. ✦ ²In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. ✦ ³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. ✦ ⁴And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. ✦ ⁵Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? ✦ ⁶Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. ✦ ⁷If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. ✦ ⁸Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. ✦ ⁹Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? ✦ ¹⁰Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. ✦ ¹¹Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake. ✦ ¹²Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. ✦ ¹³And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ✦ ¹⁴If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. ¹⁵If ye love me, keep my commandments. ✦ ¹⁶And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; ✦ ¹⁷Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. ✦ ¹⁸I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. ✦ ¹⁹Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. ✦ ²⁰At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. ✦ ²¹He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. ✦ ²²Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? ✦ ²³Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. ✦ ²⁴He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me. ✦ ²⁵These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. ✦ ²⁶But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. ✦ ²⁷Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. ✦ ²⁸Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. ✦ ²⁹And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe. ✦ ³⁰Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. ✦ ³¹But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence. ✦

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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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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).
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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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The go-to mid-level exegetical commentary on John — rigorous and readable.

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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).
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