John 14New International Version (NIV)
Jesus Comforts His Disciples
14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God[SUP]
[a][/SUP]; believe also in me. [SUP]
2 [/SUP]My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? [SUP]
3 [/SUP]And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. [SUP]
4 [/SUP]You know the way to the place where I am going.”
Jesus the Way to the Father
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5 [/SUP]Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
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6 [/SUP]Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. [SUP]
7 [/SUP]If you really know me, you will know[SUP]
[b][/SUP] my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
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8 [/SUP]Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
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9 [/SUP]Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? [SUP]
10 [/SUP]Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. [SUP]
11 [/SUP]Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. [SUP]
12 [/SUP]Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. [SUP]
13 [/SUP]And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. [SUP]
14 [/SUP]You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
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15 [/SUP]“If you love me, keep my commands. [SUP]
16 [/SUP]And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— [SUP]
17 [/SUP]the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be[SUP]
[c][/SUP] in you. [SUP]
18 [/SUP]I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. [SUP]
19 [/SUP]Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. [SUP]
20 [/SUP]On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. [SUP]
21 [/SUP]Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
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22 [/SUP]Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”
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23 [/SUP]Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. [SUP]
24 [/SUP]Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
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25 [/SUP]“All this I have spoken while still with you. [SUP]
26 [/SUP]But 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 said to you. [SUP]
27 [/SUP]Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
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28 [/SUP]“You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. [SUP]
29 [/SUP]I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. [SUP]
30 [/SUP]I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me, [SUP]
31 [/SUP]but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me.
“Come now; let us leave.