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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John 14
14
The Way to the Father
1“Your heart must not be troubled. # Jn 14:27 Believe # Or You believe in God; # Ac 16:34; 27:25; Rm 4:3,17,24; Gl 3:6; Ti 3:8; Jms 2:23; 1Jn 5:10 believe also in Me. 2In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; # The Vg used the Lat term mansio, a traveler’s resting place. The Gk word is related to the verb meno, meaning remain or stay, which occurs 40 times in John. if not, I would have told you. I am going away # Jn 8:21-22; 13:33,36; 16:7 to prepare a place for you. 3If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back # Mk 8:38 and receive you to Myself, so that where I am you may be also. # Jn 12:26 4You know the way to where I am going.” # Other mss read this verse: And you know where I am going, and you know the way # Jn 7:28; 8:14; 16:5; 1Jn 2:11
5“Lord,” Thomas # Mk 3:18 said, “we don’t know where You’re going. How can we know the way? ”
6Jesus told him, “I am # Ex 3:14; Jn 8:24,58 the way, # Heb 10:20 the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Jesus Reveals the Father
7“If you know Me, you will also know # Other mss read If you had known Me, you would have known My Father. # Mt 11:27; 1Jn 2:23 From now on you do know Him # Jn 17:3; 1Jn 4:8 and have seen Him.”
8“Lord,” said Philip, # Mk 3:18 “show us the Father, and that’s enough for us.”
9Jesus said to him, “Have I been among you all this time without your knowing Me, Philip? The one who has seen Me has seen the Father. # Jn 5:19,37; 12:45 How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? # Jn 10:30; 14:11,20; 1Jn 2:24; 4:17 The words I speak to you I do not speak on My own. # Jn 5:30 The Father who lives in Me does His works. # Jn 5:36; 6:28; Heb 3:9; Rv 15:3 11Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me. Otherwise, believe # Other mss read believe Me because of the works themselves. # Jn 10:38
Praying in Jesus’ Name
12“I assure you: The one who believes in Me # Jn 6:35 will also do the works that I do. And he will do even greater works than these, # Jn 5:20 because I am going to the Father. # Jn 7:33; 13:1,3; 16:5,10,17,28; 17:11,13; 20:17 13Whatever you ask in My name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified # Jn 11:4; 17:1; 1Pt 2:12 in the Son. # Jn 5:19 14If you ask Me # Other mss omit Me anything in My name, # Jn 10:25 I will do it. # Other mss omit all of v. 14 # Jn 11:22; 15:6; 16:23-24
Another Counselor Promised
15“If you love Me, you will keep # Other mss read If you love Me, keep (as a command) My commands. # 1Jn 5:3 16And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Counselor # Lk 24:49; Jn 14:26; 15:26; 16:7; 1Jn 2:1; Ac 2:33 to be with you forever. 17He is the Spirit # Jn 1:33 of truth. # Ps 119:142; 2Th 2:10; 1Jn 4:6 The world is unable to receive Him because it doesn’t see Him or know Him. But you do know Him, because He remains with you and will be # Other mss read and is in you. # 1Jn 4:4 18I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
19“In a little while the world will see Me no longer, # Jn 7:33 but you will see Me. # Jn 16:16 Because I live, you will live # Php 1:21 too. 20In that day you will know that I am in My Father, # Jn 14:10 you are in Me, and I am in you. 21The one who has My commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me. # Jn 8:31; 1Jn 2:5 And the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father. # Dt 7:12-13; Jn 16:27 I also will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”
22Judas # Lk 6:16; Ac 1:13 (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it You’re going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world? ” # Ac 10:40-41
23Jesus answered, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. # Jn 14:2; 1Jn 2:24 24The one who doesn’t love Me will not keep My words. The word that you hear is not Mine but is from the Father who sent Me. # Jn 5:19; 7:16; 8:28; 12:49-50
25“I have spoken these things to you while I remain with you. 26But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit # Ps 51:11; Jn 1:33; Ac 2:4; Rm 8:9; Gl 5:25; Ti 3:5; Rv 3:22 — the Father will send # Lk 24:49; Jn 14:16; 15:26; 16:7; Ac 2:33 Him in My name — will teach you all things # Jn 16:13; 1Co 2:10; 1Jn 2:27 and remind you of everything I have told you. # Jn 2:22; 2Pt 1:21
Jesus’ Gift of Peace
27“Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Your heart must not be troubled or fearful. # 2Tm 1:7 28You have heard Me tell you, ‘I am going away # Jn 16:5 and I am coming to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced that I am going to the Father, # Jn 16:10 because the Father is greater than I. # Jn 10:29; 1Jn 3:20; 4:4 29I have told you now before it happens # Jn 13:19; 16:4 so that when it does happen you may believe. 30I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of the world # Mt 4:1; Jn 12:31 is coming. He has no power over Me. # Lit He has nothing in Me # Lk 4:6 31On the contrary, I am going away # Probably refers to the cross so that the world may know that I love the Father. Just as the Father commanded Me, so I do.
“Get up; let’s leave this place.
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