John 14:1-19

1 "Let not your hearts be troubled. Trust in God: trust in me also.

2 In my Father's house there are many resting-places. Were it otherwise, I would have told you; for I am going to make ready a place for you.

3 And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will return and take you to be with me, that where I am you also may be.

4 And where I am going, you all know the way."

5 "Master," said Thomas, "we do not know where you are going. In what sense do we know the way?"

6 "I am the Way," replied Jesus, "and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

7 If you--all of you--knew me, you would fully know my Father also. From this time forward you know Him and have seen Him."

8 "Master," said Philip, "cause us to see the Father: that is all we need."

9 "Have I been so long among you," Jesus answered, "and yet you, Philip, do not know me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can *you* ask me, `Cause us to see the Father'?

10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me? The things that I tell you all I do not speak on my own authority: but the Father dwelling within me carries on His own work.

11 Believe me, all of you, that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me; or at any rate, believe me because of what I do.

12 In most solemn truth I tell you that he who trusts in me--the things which I do he shall do also; and greater things than these he shall do, because I am going to the Father.

13 And whatever any of you ask in my name, I will do, in order that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

14 If you make any request of me in my name, I will do it.

15 "If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be for ever with you--the Spirit of truth.

17 That Spirit the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. You know Him, because He remains by your side and is in you.

18 I will not leave you bereaved: I am coming to you.

19 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me: because I live, you also shall live.