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Jesus conforta os discípulos

14 “Que o vosso coração não se aflija. Creem em Deus, creiam também em mim. Há muitas moradas onde vive o meu Pai e vou aprontá-las para a vossa chegada. Quando tudo estiver pronto, então virei para vos levar, para que possam estar sempre comigo onde eu estiver. Se assim não fosse, eu próprio vos teria dito claramente. Aliás, vocês sabem para onde vou e como se vai para lá.”

Jesus é o caminho para o Pai

“Não, não sabemos!”, interrompeu Tomé. “Se não fazemos a menor ideia para onde vais, como podemos conhecer o caminho?”

Jesus disse-lhe: “Sou eu o caminho. Sim, e a verdade e a vida. Ninguém pode chegar ao Pai sem ser através de mim. Se tivessem sabido quem sou, então saberiam também quem é o meu Pai. A partir de agora, já o conhecem e o têm visto!”

Filipe disse: “Senhor, mostra-nos o Pai, e isso nos basta.”

Jesus respondeu: “Ainda não sabes quem eu sou, Filipe, mesmo depois de todo este tempo que passei convosco? Todo aquele que me viu, viu também o Pai. Então, porque me pedes para o veres? 10 Não acreditas que eu estou no Pai e que o Pai está em mim? As palavras que digo não são minhas, mas vêm do meu Pai, que vive em mim. E é através de mim que ele realiza as suas obras. 11 Creiam somente que estou no Pai e que o Pai está em mim. Ou então acreditem por causa das obras que me viram fazer.

12 É realmente como vos digo: quem crer em mim fará as mesmas obras que eu, e maiores até, porque vou para junto do Pai. 13 Podem pedir-lhe tudo, em meu nome, que eu o farei, pois isso contribuirá para a glória do Pai, por causa daquilo que eu, o Filho, farei por vocês. 14 Se pedirem qualquer coisa em meu nome, eu o farei.

Jesus promete o Espírito Santo

15 Se me amam, obedeçam-me. 16 E eu pedirei ao Pai que vos envie outro Consolador[a] e este nunca vos abandonará. 17 Ele é o Espírito Santo, o Espírito que conduz a toda a verdade. O mundo não o pode receber, porque não o procura nem o reconhece. Mas vocês, sim, pois ele vive convosco e estará mesmo no vosso íntimo. 18 Não, não vos abandonarei nem vos deixarei órfãos; antes virei até vós. 19 Mais um pouco e terei saído do mundo, mas continuarei convosco. Pois tornarei a viver e vocês também. 20 Quando eu voltar à vida, hão de saber que eu estou no meu Pai, e vocês em mim e eu em vocês. 21 Aquele que tem os meus mandamentos e lhes obedece é aquele que me ama. E, por ele me amar, meu Pai o amará; e também eu o amarei e me revelarei a ele.”

22 Judas (não o Judas Iscariotes) perguntou-lhe: “Senhor, porque é que te revelarás unicamente a nós e não a todo o mundo?”

23 Jesus respondeu: “Só me revelarei àqueles que me amam e me obedecem. Também o Pai os amará e viremos para eles e com eles viveremos. 24 Aquele que não me obedece não me ama. Esta resposta à vossa pergunta não é imaginação minha! É a resposta dada pelo Pai que me enviou. 25 Digo-vos estas coisas enquanto estou ainda convosco. 26 Mas o Pai mandará o conselheiro em meu nome, esse Consolador é o Espírito Santo, e ele vos ensinará todas as coisas e vos lembrará tudo o que eu próprio vos tenho dito.

27 Deixo-vos a minha paz. E a paz que eu dou não é como aquela que o mundo dá. Por isso, não se aflijam nem tenham receio. 28 Lembrem-se do que vos disse: Retiro-me, mas voltarei de novo para vocês. Se realmente me amam, sentir-se-ão felizes, pois agora posso ir para o Pai, que é maior do que eu. 29 Disse-vos estas coisas antes de acontecerem para que, quando se realizarem, possam crer.

30 Não tenho muito mais tempo para falar convosco, pois aproxima-se o chefe deste mundo. Ele não tem poder sobre mim. 31 Mas o mundo deve saber que amo o Pai e que faço exatamente aquilo que o meu Pai me mandou fazer. Levantem-se! Vamos!”

Footnotes

  1. 14.16 Consolador refere-se ao Espírito Santo.

The Road

14 1-4 “Don’t let this rattle you. You trust God, don’t you? Trust me. There is plenty of room for you in my Father’s home. If that weren’t so, would I have told you that I’m on my way to get a room ready for you? And if I’m on my way to get your room ready, I’ll come back and get you so you can live where I live. And you already know the road I’m taking.”

Thomas said, “Master, we have no idea where you’re going. How do you expect us to know the road?”

6-7 Jesus said, “I am the Road, also the Truth, also the Life. No one gets to the Father apart from me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him. You’ve even seen him!”

Philip said, “Master, show us the Father; then we’ll be content.”

9-10 “You’ve been with me all this time, Philip, and you still don’t understand? To see me is to see the Father. So how can you ask, ‘Where is the Father?’ Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you aren’t mere words. I don’t just make them up on my own. The Father who resides in me crafts each word into a divine act.

11-14 “Believe me: I am in my Father and my Father is in me. If you can’t believe that, believe what you see—these works. The person who trusts me will not only do what I’m doing but even greater things, because I, on my way to the Father, am giving you the same work to do that I’ve been doing. You can count on it. From now on, whatever you request along the lines of who I am and what I am doing, I’ll do it. That’s how the Father will be seen for who he is in the Son. I mean it. Whatever you request in this way, I’ll do.

The Spirit of Truth

15-17 “If you love me, show it by doing what I’ve told you. I will talk to the Father, and he’ll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you. This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can’t take him in because it doesn’t have eyes to see him, doesn’t know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you!

18-20 “I will not leave you orphaned. I’m coming back. In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you’re going to see me because I am alive and you’re about to come alive. At that moment you will know absolutely that I’m in my Father, and you’re in me, and I’m in you.

21 “The person who knows my commandments and keeps them, that’s who loves me. And the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and make myself plain to him.”

22 Judas (not Iscariot) said, “Master, why is it that you are about to make yourself plain to us but not to the world?”

23-24 “Because a loveless world,” said Jesus, “is a sightless world. If anyone loves me, he will carefully keep my word and my Father will love him—we’ll move right into the neighborhood! Not loving me means not keeping my words. The message you are hearing isn’t mine. It’s the message of the Father who sent me.

25-27 “I’m telling you these things while I’m still living with you. The Friend, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will make everything plain to you. He will remind you of all the things I have told you. I’m leaving you well and whole. That’s my parting gift to you. Peace. I don’t leave you the way you’re used to being left—feeling abandoned, bereft. So don’t be upset. Don’t be distraught.

28 “You’ve heard me tell you, ‘I’m going away, and I’m coming back.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I’m on my way to the Father because the Father is the goal and purpose of my life.

29-31 “I’ve told you this ahead of time, before it happens, so that when it does happen, the confirmation will deepen your belief in me. I’ll not be talking with you much more like this because the chief of this godless world is about to attack. But don’t worry—he has nothing on me, no claim on me. But so the world might know how thoroughly I love the Father, I am carrying out my Father’s instructions right down to the last detail.

“Get up. Let’s go. It’s time to leave here.”

Jesus Comforts His Disciples

14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled.(A) You believe(B) in God[a];(C) believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there(D) to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back(E) and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.(F) You know the way to the place where I am going.”

Jesus the Way to the Father

Thomas(G) said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

Jesus answered, “I am(H) the way(I) and the truth(J) and the life.(K) No one comes to the Father except through me.(L) If you really know me, you will know[b] my Father as well.(M) From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

Philip(N) said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”

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.(O) How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me?(P) The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority.(Q) Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 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.(R) 12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes(S) in me will do the works I have been doing,(T) and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask(U) in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

15 “If you love me, keep my commands.(V) 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate(W) to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth.(X) The world cannot accept him,(Y) because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be[c] in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans;(Z) I will come to you.(AA) 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me.(AB) Because I live, you also will live.(AC) 20 On that day(AD) you will realize that I am in my Father,(AE) and you are in me, and I am in you.(AF) 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.(AG) The one who loves me will be loved by my Father,(AH) and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

22 Then Judas(AI) (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”(AJ)

23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching.(AK) My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.(AL) 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.(AM)

25 “All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Advocate,(AN) the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,(AO) will teach you all things(AP) and will remind you of everything I have said to you.(AQ) 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.(AR) I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled(AS) and do not be afraid.

28 “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’(AT) If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father,(AU) for the Father is greater than I.(AV) 29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.(AW) 30 I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world(AX) is coming. He has no hold over me, 31 but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me.(AY)

“Come now; let us leave.

Footnotes

  1. John 14:1 Or Believe in God
  2. John 14:7 Some manuscripts If you really knew me, you would know
  3. John 14:17 Some early manuscripts and is