John 14

1Don't let your hearts be worried. You believe in God; believe in me also.

2There are many rooms in my Father's house. If it were not true, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.

3And after I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, so that you can be where I am.

4You know the way to the place where I am going.

5Thomas said to Jesus: Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?

6Jesus said to Thomas: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

7If you really knew me, you would know my Father too. From now on you do know him, and you have seen him.

8Philip said to Jesus: Lord, show us the Father. That is all we need.

9Jesus said to Philip: Philip, I have been with you such a long time. Don't you know me yet? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. So how can you say, Show us the Father?

10Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words I say to you do not come from me alone. The Father, who lives in me, is doing the Father's work through me.

11Believe me when I say that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me. Or at least believe because of the works themselves.

12I tell you the truth: anyone who believes in me will do the same works I do. That person will do even greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.

13And I will do anything you ask in my name, so that the Father will be honored through the Son.

14If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it.

15If you love me, you will obey my commands.

16And I will ask the Father, and the Father will give you another Helper to be with you forever.

17This is the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept the Spirit, because the world does not see the Spirit or know the Spirit. But you know the Spirit, because the Spirit lives with you and will be in you.

18I will not leave you all alone. I will come to you.

19Soon the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you will live too.

20On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

21Whoever has my commands and obeys them loves me, and my Father will love that believer. I will love that believer too, and show that believer who I am.

22Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said: Lord, why will you show yourself to us, and not to the world?

23Jesus answered: Whoever loves me will obey my word, and my Father will love that person. We will come to that person and make our home there.

24Anyone who does not love me does not obey my words. And these words you hear are not my own; they come from the Father who sent me.

25I have told you all this while I am still with you.

26But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things. The Holy Spirit will remind you of everything I have told you.

27I leave you peace. My own peace I give to you. I do not give to you the way the world gives. So don't let your hearts be worried, and don't be afraid.

28You heard me say: I am going away, and I will come back to you. If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

29I have told you now, before it happens, so that when it does happen, you will believe.

30I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. That ruler has no power over me.

31But the world must know that I love the Father and that I do exactly what the Father has commanded me. Come now, let us go.