The Way, the Truth, and the Life
1“Do not let your heart be troubled. You trust in God; trust in me as well. 2In my Father’s house there are many dwellings. If it were not so, I would have told you; for I am going to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to myself, so that where I am, you may be too. 4And you know the way to the place where I am going.” 5Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7If you have known me, you will know my Father as well. From now on you do know him — you have seen him.” 8Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that is all we need.” 9Jesus said to him, “Philip, have I been with you all this time, and still you do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own; it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his own work. 11Believe me: I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or else believe because of the works themselves. 12Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I am doing — and will do greater ones still, because I am going to the Father. 13And whatever you ask in my name, I will do it, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it.
The Promise of the Spirit
15If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever: 17the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he remains with you and will be in you. 18I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. 19A little while longer and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21Whoever holds my commandments and keeps them — that is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and show myself to him.” 22Judas — not Iscariot — said to him, “Lord, what has happened, that you are going to show yourself to us and not to the world?” 23Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him. 24Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word you are hearing is not mine; it belongs to the Father who sent me. 25I have said these things to you while I am still with you. 26But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all that I have said to you. 27Peace I leave with you; my own peace I give you. I do not give it the way the world gives. Do not let your heart be troubled, and do not be afraid. 28You heard me say to you, ‘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. 29And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe. 30I will not talk with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no hold on me, 31but the world must know that I love the Father, and that I do exactly what the Father has commanded me. Get up; let us leave this place.”
