“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in
me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I
have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and
prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to
myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to
where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where
you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am
the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my
Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough
for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you
still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the
Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe
that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I
say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who
dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and
the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works
themselves.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do
the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do,
because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, this
I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask
me anything in my name, I will do it.
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask
the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you
forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive,
because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he
dwells with you and will be in you.
“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Yet a
little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see
me. Because I live, you also will live. In that day you will know
that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. Whoever has my
commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who
loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and
manifest myself to him.” Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord,
how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the
world?” Jesus answered him, “If anyone 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. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words.
And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent
me.
“These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But
the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,
he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that
I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you.
Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be
troubled, neither let them be afraid. You heard me say to you, ‘I
am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would
have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is
greater than I. And now I have told you before it takes place, so
that when it does take place you may believe. I will no longer talk
much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no
claim on me, but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the
world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.
