Gospel according to John 14

¹ ‘Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God still, and trust in me.

² There are many rooms in my Father’s house; if there were not, I should have told you. I am going now to prepare a place for you,

³ and after I have gone and prepared you a place, I shall return to take you with me; so that where I am you may be too.

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

⁵ Thomas said, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going, so how can we know the way?’

⁶ Jesus said: ‘I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

⁷ If you know me, you know my Father too. From this moment you know him and have seen him.’

⁸ Philip said, ‘Lord, let us see the Father and then we shall be satisfied’.

⁹ ‘Have I been with you all this time, Philip,’ said Jesus to him ‘and you still do not know me? ‘To have seen me is to have seen the, Father, so how can you say, “Let us see the Father”?

¹⁰ Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak as from myself: it is the Father, living in me, who is doing this work.

¹¹ You must believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; believe it on the evidence of this work, if for no other reason.

¹² I tell you most solemnly, whoever believes in me will perform the same works as I do myself, he will perform even greater works, because I am going to the Father.

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

¹⁴ If you ask for anything in my name, I will do it.

¹⁵ If you love me you will keep my commandments.

¹⁶ I shall ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate[*a] to be with you for ever,

¹⁷ that Spirit of truth whom the world can never receive since it neither sees nor knows him; but you know him, because he is with you, he is in you.

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

¹⁹ In a short time the world will no longer see me; but you will see me, because I live and you will live.

²⁰ On that day you will understand that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you.

²¹ Anybody who receives my commandments and keeps them will be one who loves me; and anybody who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I shall love him and show myself to him.’

²² Judas[*b] – this was not Judas Iscariot – said to him, ‘Lord, what is all this about? Do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?’

²³ Jesus replied: ‘If anyone loves me he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him and make our home with him.

²⁴ Those who do not love me do not keep my words. And my word is not my own: it is the word of the one who sent me.

²⁵ I have said these things to you while still with you;

²⁶ but the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all I have said to you.

²⁷ Peace[*c] I bequeath to you, my own peace I give you, a peace the world cannot give, this is my gift to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.

²⁸ You heard me say: I am going away, and shall return. If you loved me you would have been glad to know that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

²⁹ I have told you this now before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe.

³⁰ I shall not talk with you any longer, because the prince of this world is on his way. He has no power over me,

³¹ but the world must be brought to know that I love the Father and that I am doing exactly what the Father told me. Come now, let us go.