John 14:1-18

Jesus Comforts His Disciples

1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God^[a] ; believe also in me.

2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?

3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

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

Jesus the Way to the Father

5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

7 If you really know me, you will know^[b] my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”

9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.

11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.

12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

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

14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

15 “If you love me, keep my commands.

16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—

17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be^[c] in you.

18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

Cross References

• 1. ver 27
• 2. S John 3:15
• 3. Psalms 4:5
• 4. John 13:33,36; John 16:5
• 5. ver 18,28; S Matthew 16:27
• 6. S John 12:26
• 7. S John 11:16
• 8. S John 6:35
• 9. John 10:9; Ephesians 2:18; Hebrews 10:20
• 10. John 1:14
• 11. S John 1:4; John 11:25
• 12. Acts 4:12
• 13. John 1:18; S 1 John 2:23; John 8:19
• 14. S John 1:43
• 15. Isaiah 9:6; John 1:14; John 12:45; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Philippians 2:6; Colossians 1:15; Hebrews 1:3
• 16. ver 11,20; John 10:38; John 17:21
• 17. S ver 24; John 5:19
• 18. John 5:36; John 10:38
• 19. Matthew 21:21
• 20. Luke 10:17
• 21. S Matthew 7:7
• 22. ver 21,23; Psalms 103:18; John 15:10; 1 John 2:3-5; 1 John 3:22,24; 1 John 5:3; 2 John 6; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 14:12
• 23. ver 26; John 15:26; John 16:7
• 24. John 15:26; John 16:13; 1 John 4:6; 1 John 5:6
• 25. 1 Corinthians 2:14
• 26. 1 Kings 6:13
• 27. ver 3,28; S Matthew 16:27

Footnotes

• [a] Or "Believe in God"
• [b] Some manuscripts "If you really knew me, you would know"
• [c] Some early manuscripts "and is"