14:1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God*; believe also in me. / *Or Believe in God
14:2 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?
14:3 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.
14:4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”
14:5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
14:7 If you really know me, you will know* my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” / *Some manuscripts If you really knew me, you would know
14:8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
14:9 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’?
14:10 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.
14:11 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.
14:12 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.
14:13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14:14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
14:15 “If you love me, keep my commands.
14:16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever -
14:17 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* in you. / *Some early manuscripts and is
14:18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
14:19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
14:20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
14:21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
14:22 Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”
14:23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.
14:24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
14:25 “All this I have spoken while still with you.
14:26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
14:28 “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
14:29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.
14:30 I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me,
14:31 but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me. “Come now; let us leave.