John 14
14
The Road
1-4“Don’t let this rattle you. You trust God, don’t you? Trust me. There is plenty of room for you in my Father’s home. If that weren’t so, would I have told you that I’m on my way to get a room ready for you? And if I’m on my way to get your room ready, I’ll come back and get you so you can live where I live. And you already know the road I’m taking.”
5Thomas said, “Master, we have no idea where you’re going. How do you expect us to know the road?”
6-7Jesus said, “I am the Road, also the Truth, also the Life. No one gets to the Father apart from me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him. You’ve even seen him!”
8Philip said, “Master, show us the Father; then we’ll be content.”
9-10“You’ve been with me all this time, Philip, and you still don’t understand? To see me is to see the Father. So how can you ask, ‘Where is the Father?’ Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you aren’t mere words. I don’t just make them up on my own. The Father who resides in me crafts each word into a divine act.
11-14“Believe me: I am in my Father and my Father is in me. If you can’t believe that, believe what you see—these works. The person who trusts me will not only do what I’m doing but even greater things, because I, on my way to the Father, am giving you the same work to do that I’ve been doing. You can count on it. From now on, whatever you request along the lines of who I am and what I am doing, I’ll do it. That’s how the Father will be seen for who he is in the Son. I mean it. Whatever you request in this way, I’ll do.
The Spirit of Truth
15-17“If you love me, show it by doing what I’ve told you. I will talk to the Father, and he’ll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you. This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can’t take him in because it doesn’t have eyes to see him, doesn’t know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you!
18-20“I will not leave you orphaned. I’m coming back. In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you’re going to see me because I am alive and you’re about to come alive. At that moment you will know absolutely that I’m in my Father, and you’re in me, and I’m in you.
21“The person who knows my commandments and keeps them, that’s who loves me. And the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and make myself plain to him.”
22Judas (not Iscariot) said, “Master, why is it that you are about to make yourself plain to us but not to the world?”
23-24“Because a loveless world,” said Jesus, “is a sightless world. If anyone loves me, he will carefully keep my word and my Father will love him—we’ll move right into the neighborhood! Not loving me means not keeping my words. The message you are hearing isn’t mine. It’s the message of the Father who sent me.
25-27“I’m telling you these things while I’m still living with you. The Friend, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will make everything plain to you. He will remind you of all the things I have told you. I’m leaving you well and whole. That’s my parting gift to you. Peace. I don’t leave you the way you’re used to being left—feeling abandoned, bereft. So don’t be upset. Don’t be distraught.
28“You’ve heard me tell you, ‘I’m going away, and I’m coming back.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I’m on my way to the Father because the Father is the goal and purpose of my life.
29-31“I’ve told you this ahead of time, before it happens, so that when it does happen, the confirmation will deepen your belief in me. I’ll not be talking with you much more like this because the chief of this godless world is about to attack. But don’t worry—he has nothing on me, no claim on me. But so the world might know how thoroughly I love the Father, I am carrying out my Father’s instructions right down to the last detail.
“Get up. Let’s go. It’s time to leave here.”
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Yochanan 14
14
1Let not your levavot be troubled.#14:1 Jn 14:27 You have emunah (faith) in Hashem. Also in me have emunah (faith).#14:1 Ex 14:21; Ps 4:5
2In the Beis Avi there are many me'onot#14:2 cf. 14:23 (dwelling places, permanent residences, homes); if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a makom (place) for you?
3And if I go and prepare a makom for you, I am coming again and will receive you to myself, that where I am, there you may be also.
4And where I go you have da'as of HaDerech.#14:4 Ps 1:6
5T'oma says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni, we do not have da'as of where you are going; how are we able to have da'as of HaDerech?
6Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, I am HaDerech, HaEmes, and HaChayyim. No one comes to HaAv except through me.#14:6 1Sm 3:7
7If you have had da'as of me, also you will have had da'as of Avi. And from now on, you have had da'as of Him and have seen Him.
8Philippos says to him, Adoni, show us [Elohim] HaAv and it is enough for us.
9Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to Philippos, So long a time with you I am and you have not had da'as of me, Philippos? The one having seen me has seen [Elohim] HaAv.#14:9 Co 1:15; Isa 9:6 [5]; Prov 30:4 How do you say, Show us HaAv?
10Do you not have emunah (faith) that Ani Hu in HaAv and HaAv is in me? The devarim which I speak to you I do not speak on my own, but HaAv dwelling in me does His pe'ulot.
11In me have emunah, that Ani Hu in HaAv and HaAv is in me; but if not, have emunah because of the pe'ulot themselves.
12Omein, omein, I say to you, the one believing in me the pe'ulot which I do he will do, and gedolot than these will he do, because I am going to HaAv.
13And whatever you ask b'Shem of me I will do, that HaAv may receive kavod in HaBen.
14If anything you ask me b'Shem of me, I will do it.
15If you have ahavah for me, you will be shomer mitzvot regarding my commandments.#14:15 Ps 103:18
16And I will ask HaAv and another Melitz Yosher#14:16 Advocate, Counselor, Helper in Court, Jn 14:26; 15:26; 16:7 He will give you that He may be with you l'Olam,
17The Ruach HaEmes, which the Olam Hazeh is not able to receive, because it does not see Him nor have da'as of Him. But you have da'as of Him, because He remains with you and He will be in you.
18I will not leave you yetomim (orphans). I am coming to you.#14:18 1Kgs 6:13
19Yet a little time and the Olam Hazeh no longer sees me, but you see me. Because Ani Chai, so you will live also.
20On Yom Hahu (that day) you will have da'as that I am in HaAv of me and you are in me and I am in you.
21The one having the mitzvot of me and being shomer mitzvot, that one is the one having ahavah for me. And the one having ahavah for me will receive ahavah from HaAv of me, and I will have ahavah for him and I will manifest myself to him.
22Yehudah (not the one from K'riot) says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni, and what has transpired that to us you are about to manifest yourself and not to the Olam Hazeh?
23In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, If anyone has ahavah for me, of my dvar he will be shomer and HaAv of me will have ahavah for him and to him we will come and with him we will make a ma'on.#14:23 Jn 14:2, me'onot, plural; see also Prov 8:17; Ezek 37:27
24The one not having ahavah (agape) for me is not shomer regarding the devarim of me, and the dvar which you hear is not mine but that of HaAv Who sent me.#14:24 Dt 18:18
25These things I have told you while abiding with you.
26But the Melitz Yosher (Praklit, Advocate, Counselor, Helper in Court), the Ruach Hakodesh which HaAv will send b'Shem of me, He will teach you all things and will remind you of all things which I told you.
27Shalom Hashem I leave with you, my Shalom I give to you,#14:27 Num 6:26; Ps 85:8; Mal 2:6 not as the Olam Hazeh gives, I give to you; let not your levavot be troubled,#14:27 Jn 14:1 nor let them be ones of morech lev#14:27 Rv 21:8 (cowardliness).#14:27 Hag 2:9 TARGUM HASHIVIM
28You heard me say to you, I am going,#14:28 Jn 14:12 and I am coming to you.#14:28 Jn 14:18 If you were having ahavah for me, you would have simcha, because I go to HaAv, for HaAv is greater than me.#14:28 Jn 1:1,14
29And now I have told you before it happens, that when it happens, you may have emunah (faith).
30No longer many things I will speak with you, for the Sar HaOlam Hazeh is coming; and in me he has nothing.
31But in order that HaOlam may have da'as that I have ahavah for HaAv, as HaAv gave me mitzvah, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
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