The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 "Don't let yourselves be disturbed. Trust in God and trust in me.
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Let not your heart be troubled: have faith in God and have faith in me.
2 In my Father's house are many places to live. If there weren't, I would have told you; because I am going there to prepare a place for you.
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In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?
3 Since I am going and preparing a place for you, I will return to take you with me; so that where I am, you may be also.
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And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.
4 Furthermore, you know where I'm going; and you know the way there."
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And you all have knowledge of where I am going, and of the way to it.
5 T'oma said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you're going; so how can we know the way?"
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Thomas said, Lord, we have no knowledge of where you are going; how may we have knowledge of the way?
6 Yeshua said, "I AM the Way -- and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through me.
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Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me.
7 Because you have known me, you will also know my Father; from now on, you do know him -- in fact, you have seen him."
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If you had knowledge of me, you would have knowledge of my Father: you have knowledge of him now and have seen him.
8 Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it will be enough for us."
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Philip said to him, Lord, let us see the Father, and we have need of nothing more.
9 Yeshua replied to him, "Have I been with you so long without your knowing me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father; so how can you say, `Show us the Father'?
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Jesus said to him, Philip, have I been with you all this time, and still you have no knowledge of me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. Why do you say, Let us see the Father?
10 Don't you believe that I am united with the Father, and the Father united with me? What I am telling you, I am not saying on my own initiative; the Father living in me is doing his own works.
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Have you not faith that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words which I say to you, I say not from myself: but the Father who is in me all the time does his works.
11 Trust me, that I am united with the Father, and the Father united with me. But if you can't, then trust because of the works themselves.
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Have faith that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me: at least, have faith in me because of what I do.
12 Yes, indeed! I tell you that whoever trusts in me will also do the works I do! Indeed, he will do greater ones, because I am going to the Father.
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Truly I say to you, He who puts his faith in me will do the very works which I do, and he will do greater things than these, because I am going to my Father.
13 In fact, whatever you ask for in my name, I will do; so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
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And whatever request you make in my name, that I will do, so that the Father may have glory in the Son.
14 If you ask me for something in my name, I will do it.
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If you make any request to me in my name, I will do it.
15 "If you love me, you will keep my commands;
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If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.
16 and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another comforting Counselor like me, the Spirit of Truth, to be with you forever.
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And I will make prayer to the Father and he will give you another Helper to be with you for ever,
17 The world cannot receive him, because it neither sees nor knows him. You know him, because he is staying with you and will be united with you.
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Even the Spirit of true knowledge. That Spirit the world is not able to take to its heart because it sees him not and has no knowledge of him: but you have knowledge of him, because he is ever with you and will be in you.
18 I will not leave you orphans -- I am coming to you.
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I will not let you be without a friend: I am coming to you.
19 In just a little while, the world will no longer see me; but you will see me. Because I live, you too will live.
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A little time longer, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me; and you will be living because I am living.
20 When that day comes, you will know that I am united with my Father, and you with me, and I with you.
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At that time it will be clear to you that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I in you.
21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me, and the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him."
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He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.
22 Y'hudah (not the one from K'riot) said to him, "What has happened, Lord, that you are about to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?"
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Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by the world?
23 Yeshua answered him, "If someone loves me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
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Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.
24 Someone who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words -- and the word you are hearing is not my own but that of the Father who sent me.
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He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.
25 "I have told you these things while I am still with you.
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I have said all this to you while I am still with you.
26 But the Counselor, the Ruach HaKodesh, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything; that is, he will remind you of everything I have said to you.
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But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will be your teacher in all things and will put you in mind of everything I have said to you.
27 "What I am leaving with you is shalom -- I am giving you my shalom. I don't give the way the world gives. Don't let yourselves be upset or frightened.
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May peace be with you; my peace I give to you: I give it not as the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled; let it be without fear.
28 You heard me tell you, `I am leaving, and I will come back to you.' If you loved me, you would have been glad that I am going to the Father; because the Father is greater than I.
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Keep in mind how I said to you, I go away and come to you again. If you had love for me you would be glad, because I am going to the Father: for the Father is greater than I.
29 "Also, I have said it to you now, before it happens; so that when it does happen, you will trust.
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And now I have given you word of it before it comes, so that, when it comes, you may have faith.
30 "I won't be talking with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me;
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After this I will not say much to you, because the ruler of this world comes: and he has no power over me;
31 rather, this is happening so that the world may know that I love the Father, and that I do as the Father has commanded me. "Get up! Let's get going!
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But he comes so that the world may see that I have love for the Father, and that I am doing as I am ordered by the Father. Get up, and let us go.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
The Bible in Basic English is in the public domain.