I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life

14 ^(A)“Let not your hearts be troubled. ^(B)Believe in God;^[a] believe also in me. ² In ^(C)my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that ^(D)I go to prepare a place for you?^{[b] 3} And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you ^(E)to myself, that ^(F)where I am you may be also. ⁴ And you know the way to where I am going.”^{[c] 5 (G)}Thomas said to him, “Lord, ^(H)we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ⁶ Jesus said to him, “I am ^(I)the way, and ^(J)the truth, and ^(K)the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ^7 (L)If you had known me, you would have ^(M)known my Father also.^[d] From now on you do know him and ^(N)have seen him.”

^8 (O)Philip said to him, “Lord, ^(P)show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” ⁹ Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? ^(Q)Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that ^(R)I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you ^(S)I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. ¹¹ Believe me that ^(T)I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else ^(U)believe on account of the works themselves.

¹² “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(V)whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I ^(W)am going to the Father. ^13 (X)Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that ^(Y)the Father may be glorified in the Son. ^14 (Z)If you ask me^[e] anything in my name, I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

^15 (AA)“If you love me, you will ^(AB)keep my commandments. ¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another ^(AC)Helper,^[f] to be with you forever, ¹⁷ even ^(AD)the Spirit of truth, ^(AE)whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and ^(AF)will be^[g] in you.

¹⁸ “I will not leave you as orphans; ^(AG)I will come to you. ^19 (AH)Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but ^(AI)you will see me. ^(AJ)Because I live, you also will live. ^20 (AK)In that day you will know that ^(AL)I am in my Father, and ^(AM)you in me, and ^(AN)I in you. ^21 (AO)Whoever has my commandments and ^(AP)keeps them, he it is who loves me. And ^(AQ)he who loves me ^(AR)will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and ^(AS)manifest myself to him.” ^22 (AT)Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it ^(AU)that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” ²³ Jesus answered him, ^(AV)“If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and ^(AW)we will come to him and ^(AX)make our home with him. ²⁴ Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And ^(AY)the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

²⁵ “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. ²⁶ But the ^(AZ)Helper, the Holy Spirit, ^(BA)whom the Father will send in my name, ^(BB)he will teach you all things and ^(BC)bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. ^27 (BD)Peace I leave with you; ^(BE)my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. ^(BF)Let not your hearts be troubled, neither ^(BG)let them be afraid. ^28 (BH)You heard me say to you, ^(BI)‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I ^(BJ)am going to the Father, for ^(BK)the Father is greater than I. ²⁹ And ^(BL)now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe. ³⁰ I will no longer talk much with you, for ^(BM)the ruler of this world is coming. ^(BN)He has no claim on me, ³¹ but I do ^(BO)as the Father has commanded me, ^(BP)so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

I Am the True Vine

15 “I am the ^(BQ)true vine, and my Father is ^(BR)the vinedresser. ^2 (BS)Every branch in me that does not bear fruit ^(BT)he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, ^(BU)that it may bear more fruit. ³ Already ^(BV)you are clean ^(BW)because of the word that I have spoken to you. ^4 (BX)Abide ^(BY)in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. ⁵ I am the vine; ^(BZ)you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that ^(CA)bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in me ^(CB)he is thrown away like a branch and withers; ^(CC)and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. ⁷ If ^(CD)you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ^(CE)ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. ^8 (CF)By this my Father is glorified, that you ^(CG)bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. ^9 (CH)As the Father has loved me, ^(CI)so have I loved you. Abide in my love. ^10 (CJ)If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as ^(CK)I have kept ^(CL)my Father's commandments and abide in his love. ¹¹ These things I have spoken to you, ^(CM)that my joy may be in you, and that ^(CN)your joy may be full.

^12 (CO)“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ^13 (CP)Greater love has no one than this, ^(CQ)that someone lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are ^(CR)my friends ^(CS)if you do what I command you. ^15 (CT)No longer do I call you servants,^[h] for the servant ^(CU)does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ^(CV)all that I have heard from my Father ^(CW)I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but ^(CX)I chose you and appointed you that you should go and ^(CY)bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that ^(CZ)whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, ^(DA)so that you will love one another.

The Hatred of the World

^18 (DB)“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. ^19 (DC)If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because ^(DD)you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you: ^(DE)‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, ^(DF)they will also persecute you. ^(DG)If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. ²¹ But ^(DH)all these things they will do to you ^(DI)on account of my name, ^(DJ)because they do not know him who sent me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, ^(DK)they would not have been guilty of sin,^[i] but now they have no excuse for their sin. ^23 (DL)Whoever hates me hates my Father also. ^24 (DM)If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, ^(DN)they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have ^(DO)seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But ^(DP)the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ^(DQ)‘They hated me without a cause.’

²⁶ “But ^(DR)when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, ^(DS)he will bear witness about me. ²⁷ And ^(DT)you also will bear witness, ^(DU)because you have been with me ^(DV)from the beginning.

16 “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. ^2 (DW)They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, ^(DX)the hour is coming when ^(DY)whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. ³ And they will do these things ^(DZ)because they have not known the Father, nor me. ⁴ But ^(EA)I have said these things to you, that when ^(EB)their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you.

The Work of the Holy Spirit

“I did not say these things to you from the beginning, ^(EC)because I was with you. ⁵ But now ^(ED)I am going to him who sent me, and ^(EE)none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ ⁶ But because I have said these things to you, ^(EF)sorrow has filled your heart. ⁷ Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for ^(EG)if I do not go away, ^(EH)the Helper will not come to you. But ^(EI)if ^(EJ)I go, ^(EK)I will send him to you. ^8 (EL)And when he comes, he will ^(EM)convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: ⁹ concerning sin, ^(EN)because they do not believe in me; ^10 (EO)concerning righteousness, ^(EP)because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; ^11 (EQ)concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world ^(ER)is judged.

¹² “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. ¹³ When ^(ES)the Spirit of truth comes, ^(ET)he will ^(EU)guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but ^(EV)whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. ¹⁴ He will ^(EW)glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. ^15 (EX)All that the Father has is mine; ^(EY)therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

Your Sorrow Will Turn into Joy

^16 (EZ)“A little while, and you will see me no longer; and ^(FA)again a little while, and you will see me.” ¹⁷ So ^(FB)some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ^(FC)‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and, ^(FD)‘because I am going to the Father’?” ¹⁸ So they were saying, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? ^(FE)We do not know what he is talking about.” ^19 (FF)Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’? ²⁰ Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(FG)you will weep and lament, but ^(FH)the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but ^(FI)your sorrow will turn into joy. ^21 (FJ)When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. ^22 (FK)So also you have sorrow now, but ^(FL)I will see you again, and ^(FM)your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. ^23 (FN)In that day you will ^(FO)ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(FP)whatever you ask of the Father in my name, ^(FQ)he will give it to you. ²⁴ Until now you have asked nothing in my name. ^(FR)Ask, and you will receive, ^(FS)that your joy may be full.

I Have Overcome the World

²⁵ “I have said these things to you in figures of speech. ^(FT)The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father. ²⁶ In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf; ^27 (FU)for the Father himself loves you, because ^(FV)you have loved me and ^(FW)have believed that I came from God.^{[j] 28 (FX)}I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now ^(FY)I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

²⁹ His disciples said, “Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not ^(FZ)using figurative speech! ³⁰ Now we know that ^(GA)you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that ^(GB)you came from God.” ³¹ Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? ³² Behold, ^(GC)the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when ^(GD)you will be scattered, each to his own home, and ^(GE)will leave me alone. ^(GF)Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. ³³ I have said these things to you, that ^(GG)in me you may have peace. ^(GH)In the world you will have ^(GI)tribulation. But ^(GJ)take heart; ^(GK)I have overcome the world.”

The High Priestly Prayer

17 When Jesus had spoken these words, ^(GL)he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, ^(GM)the hour has come; ^(GN)glorify your Son that the Son may ^(GO)glorify you, ² since ^(GP)you have given him authority over all flesh, ^(GQ)to give eternal life to all ^(GR)whom you have given him. ^3 (GS)And this is eternal life, ^(GT)that they know you, ^(GU)the only ^(GV)true God, and ^(GW)Jesus Christ whom you have sent. ⁴ I ^(GX)glorified you on earth, ^(GY)having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. ⁵ And now, Father, ^(GZ)glorify me in your own presence with the glory ^(HA)that I had with you ^(HB)before the world existed.

^6 (HC)“I have manifested your name to the people ^(HD)whom you gave me out of the world. ^(HE)Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. ⁷ Now they know that everything ^(HF)that you have given me is from you. ⁸ For I have given them ^(HG)the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that ^(HH)I came from you; and ^(HI)they have believed that you sent me. ⁹ I am praying for them. ^(HJ)I am not praying for the world but for those ^(HK)whom you have given me, for ^(HL)they are yours. ^10 (HM)All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and ^(HN)I am glorified in them. ¹¹ And I am no longer in the world, but ^(HO)they are in the world, and ^(HP)I am coming to you. ^(HQ)Holy Father, ^(HR)keep them in your name, ^(HS)which you have given me, ^(HT)that they may be one, ^(HU)even as we are one. ^12 (HV)While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have ^(HW)guarded them, and ^(HX)not one of them has been lost except ^(HY)the son of destruction, ^(HZ)that the Scripture might be fulfilled. ¹³ But now ^(IA)I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have ^(IB)my joy fulfilled in themselves. ^14 (IC)I have given them your word, and ^(ID)the world has hated them ^(IE)because they are not of the world, ^(IF)just as I am not of the world. ¹⁵ I ^(IG)do not ask that you ^(IH)take them out of the world, but that you ^(II)keep them from ^(IJ)the evil one.^{[k] 16 (IK)}They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ^17 (IL)Sanctify them^[l] in the truth; ^(IM)your word is truth. ^18 (IN)As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. ¹⁹ And ^(IO)for their sake ^(IP)I consecrate myself,^[m] that they also ^(IQ)may be sanctified^[n] in truth.

²⁰ “I do not ^(IR)ask for these only, but also for those ^(IS)who will believe in me through their word, ^21 (IT)that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that ^(IU)they also may be in ^(IV)us, so that the world ^(IW)may believe that you have sent me. ^22 (IX)The glory that you have given me ^(IY)I have given to them, ^(IZ)that they may be one even as we are one, ^23 (JA)I in them and you in me, ^(JB)that they may become perfectly one, ^(JC)so that the world may know that you sent me and ^(JD)loved them even as ^(JE)you loved me. ²⁴ Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be ^(JF)with me ^(JG)where I am, ^(JH)to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me ^(JI)before the foundation of the world. ^25 (JJ)O righteous Father, even though ^(JK)the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. ^26 (JL)I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love ^(JM)with which you have loved me may be in them, and ^(JN)I in them.”