John 14

Part of The Upper Room and Farewell Discourse📖 John introduction

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¹“Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. ✦ ²In My Father’s house are many rooms; if that were not so, I would have told you, because I am going there to prepare a place for you. ✦ ³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I am coming again and will take you to Myself, so that where I am, there you also will be. ✦ ⁴And you know the way where I am going.” ✦ ⁵Thomas *said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going; how do we know the way?” ✦ ⁶Jesus *said to him, “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 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 it is enough for us.” ✦ ⁹Jesus *said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? The one 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 that I say to you I do not speak on My own, but the Father, as He remains in Me, does His works. ✦ ¹¹Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves. ✦ ¹²Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I am going to the Father. ✦ ¹³And whatever you ask in My name, this I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ✦ ¹⁴If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it. ¹⁵“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. ✦ ¹⁶I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, so that He may be with you forever; ✦ ¹⁷the Helper is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him; but you know Him because He remains with you and will be in you. ✦ ¹⁸“I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you. ✦ ¹⁹After a little while, the world no longer is going to see Me, but you are going to 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 in you. ✦ ²¹The one who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and the 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 going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?” ✦ ²³Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will follow My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our dwelling with him. ✦ ²⁴The one who does not love Me does not follow My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me. ✦ ²⁵“These things I have spoken to you while remaining with you. ✦ ²⁶But the Helper, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and remind you of all that I said to you. ✦ ²⁷Peace I leave you, My peace I give you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, nor fearful. ✦ ²⁸You heard that I said to you, ‘I am going away, and I am coming to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. ✦ ²⁹And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe. ✦ ³⁰I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in regard to Me, ✦ ³¹but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let’s go from here. ✦

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In this chapter

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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Tim Keller's gospel-centered preaching — sermons stream free (the complete downloadable archive is paid).
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Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.
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The go-to mid-level exegetical commentary on John — rigorous and readable.

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Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.
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The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
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