Jesus Comforts the Disciples
1 “Do not let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many homes. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? 3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and will receive you to myself, that where I am, you may be there also. 4 You know where I am going, and you know the way.”
The Way, the Truth, and the Life
5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him and have seen him.”
8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and you do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself, but the Father who lives in me does his works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me, or else believe me because of the works. 12 Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also, and he will do greater works than these because I am going to my Father. 13 Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever: 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, for it does not see him and does not know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.
18 I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also. 20 On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world?”
23 Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24 He who does not love me does not keep my words. The word which you hear is not mine, but the Father’s, who sent me.
25 I have said these things to you while still living with you. 26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
Peace I Leave with You
27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. 28 You heard how I told you, ‘I am going away, and I am coming to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father,’ for the Father is greater than I. 29 Now I have told you before it happens so that when it happens, you may believe. 30 Hereafter, I will not talk much with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has no power over me. 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.