John 14:1–31

¹“Do not let ​YOUR​ hearts be troubled. Exercise faith in God, exercise faith also in me.²In the house of my Father there are many abodes. Otherwise, I would have told ​YOU, because I am going my way to prepare a place for ​YOU.³Also, if I go my way and prepare a place for ​YOU, I am coming again and will receive ​YOU​ home to myself, that where I am ​YOU​ also may be.⁴And where I am going ​YOU​ know the way.”

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​ men had known me, ​YOU​ would have known my Father also; from this moment 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​ men so long a time, and yet, Philip, you have not come to know me? He that has seen me has seen the Father [also]. How is it you say, ‘Show us the Father’?¹⁰Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and the Father is in union with me? The things I say to ​YOU​ men I do not speak of my own originality; but the Father who remains in union with me is doing his works.¹¹Believe me that I am in union with the Father and the Father is in union with me; otherwise, believe on account of the works themselves.¹²Most truly I say to ​YOU, He that exercises faith in me, that one also will do the works that I do; and he will do works greater than these, because I am going my way to the Father.¹³Also, whatever it is that ​YOU​ ask in my name, I will do this, in order that the Father may be glorified in connection with the Son.¹⁴If ​YOU​ ask anything in my name, I will do it.

¹⁵“If ​YOU​ love me, ​YOU​ will observe my commandments;¹⁶and I will request the Father and he will give ​YOU​ another helper to be with ​YOU​ forever,¹⁷the spirit of the truth, which the world cannot receive, because it neither beholds it nor knows it. YOU​ know it, because it remains with ​YOU​ and is in ​YOU.¹⁸I shall not leave ​YOU​ bereaved. I am coming to ​YOU.¹⁹A little longer and the world will behold me no more, but ​YOU​ will behold me, because I live and ​YOU​ will live.²⁰In that day ​YOU​ will know that I am in union with my Father and ​YOU​ are in union with me and I am in union with ​YOU.²¹He that has my commandments and observes them, that one is he who loves me. In turn he that loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will plainly show myself to him.”

²²Judas, not Is‧car′i‧ot, said to him: “Lord, what has happened that you intend to show yourself plainly to us and not to the world?”

²³In answer Jesus said to him: “If anyone loves me, he will observe my word, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him and make our abode with him.²⁴He that does not love me does not observe my words; and the word that ​YOU​ are hearing is not mine, but belongs to the Father who sent me.

²⁵“While remaining with ​YOU​ I have spoken these things to ​YOU.²⁶But the helper, the holy spirit, which the Father will send in my name, that one will teach ​YOU​ all things and bring back to ​YOUR​ minds all the things I told ​YOU.²⁷I leave ​YOU​ peace, I give ​YOU​ my peace. I do not give it to ​YOU​ the way that the world gives it. Do not let ​YOUR​ hearts be troubled nor let them shrink for fear.²⁸YOU​ heard that I said to ​YOU, I am going away and I am coming [back] to ​YOU. If ​YOU​ loved me, ​YOU​ would rejoice that I am going my way to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.²⁹So now I have told ​YOU​ before it occurs, in order that, when it does occur, ​YOU​ may believe.³⁰I shall not speak much with ​YOU​ anymore, for the ruler of the world is coming. And he has no hold on me,³¹but, in order for the world to know that I love the Father, even as the Father has given me commandment [to do], so I am doing. Get up, let us go from here.