| Chapter 14 |
1 | 'Let not your hearts be troubled. Trust in God: trust in me also.
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2 | In my Father's house there are many resting-places. Were it otherwise, I would have told you; for I am going to make ready a place for you.
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3 | And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will return and take you to be with me, that where I am you also may be.
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4 | And where I am going, you all know the way.'
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5 | 'Master,' said Thomas, 'we do not know where you are going. In what sense do we know the way?'
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6 | 'I am the Way,' replied Jesus, 'and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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7 | If you--all of you--knew me, you would fully know my Father also. From this time forward you know Him and have seen Him.'
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8 | 'Master,' said Philip, 'cause us to see the Father: that is all we need.'
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9 | 'Have I been so long among you,' Jesus answered, 'and yet you, Philip, do not know me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can *you* ask me, 'Cause us to see the Father'?
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10 | Do you not believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me? The things that I tell you all I do not speak on my own authority: but the Father dwelling within me carries on His own work.
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11 | Believe me, all of you, that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me; or at any rate, believe me because of what I do.
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12 | In most solemn truth I tell you that he who trusts in me--the things which I do he shall do also; and greater things than these he shall do, because I am going to the Father.
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13 | And whatever any of you ask in my name, I will do, in order that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
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14 | If you make any request of me in my name, I will do it.
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15 | 'If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
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16 | And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be for ever with you--the Spirit of truth.
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17 | That Spirit the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. You know Him, because He remains by your side and is in you.
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18 | I will not leave you bereaved: I am coming to you.
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19 | Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me: because I live, you also shall live.
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20 | At that time you will know that I am in my Father, and that you are in me, and that I am in you.
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21 | He who has my commandments and obeys them--he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will clearly reveal myself to him.'
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22 | Judas (not the Iscariot) asked, 'Master, how is it that you will reveal yourself clearly to us and not to the world?'
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23 | 'If any one loves me,' replied Jesus, 'he will obey my teaching; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
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24 | He who has no love for me does not obey my teaching; and yet the teaching to which you are listening is not mine, but is the teaching of the Father who sent me.
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25 | 'All this I have spoken to you while still with you.
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26 | But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will teach you everything, and will bring to your memories all that I have said to you.
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27 | Peace I leave with you: my own peace I give to you. It is not as the world gives its greetings that I give you peace. Let not your hearts be troubled or dismayed.
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28 | 'You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and yet I am coming to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I am.
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29 | I have now told you before it comes to pass, that when it has come to pass you may believe.
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30 | In future I shall not talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. And yet in me he has nothing;
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31 | but it is in order that the world may know that I love the Father, and that it is in obedience to the command which the Father gave me that I thus act. Rise, let us be going.'
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