John 14

Part of The Upper Room and Farewell Discourse📖 John introduction

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¹“Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. ✦ ²There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? ✦ ³When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am. ✦ ⁴And you know the way to where I am going.” ✦ ⁵“No, we don’t know, Lord,” Thomas said. “We have no idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?” ✦ ⁶Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. ✦ ⁷If you had really known me, you would know who my Father is. From now on, you do know him and have seen him!” ✦ ⁸Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.” ✦ ⁹Jesus replied, “Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and yet you still don’t know who I am? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father! So why are you asking me to show him to you? ✦ ¹⁰Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak are not my own, but my Father who lives in me does his work through me. ✦ ¹¹Just believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or at least believe because of the work you have seen me do. ✦ ¹²“I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father. ✦ ¹³You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring glory to the Father. ✦ ¹⁴Yes, ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it! ¹⁵“If you love me, obey my commandments. ✦ ¹⁶And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. ✦ ¹⁷He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you. ✦ ¹⁸No, I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you. ✦ ¹⁹Soon the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Since I live, you also will live. ✦ ²⁰When 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. ✦ ²¹Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal myself to each of them.” ✦ ²²Judas (not Judas Iscariot, but the other disciple with that name) said to him, “Lord, why are you going to reveal yourself only to us and not to the world at large?” ✦ ²³Jesus replied, “All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them. ✦ ²⁴Anyone who doesn’t love me will not obey me. And remember, my words are not my own. What I am telling you is from the Father who sent me. ✦ ²⁵I am telling you these things now while I am still with you. ✦ ²⁶But when the Father sends the Advocate as my representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you. ✦ ²⁷“I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid. ✦ ²⁸Remember what I told you: I am going away, but I will come back to you again. If you really loved me, you would be happy that I am going to the Father, who is greater than I am. ✦ ²⁹I have told you these things before they happen so that when they do happen, you will believe. ✦ ³⁰“I don’t have much more time to talk to you, because the ruler of this world approaches. He has no power over me, ✦ ³¹but I will do what the Father requires of me, so that the world will know that I love the Father. Come, let’s be going. ✦

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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.

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