The Way to the Father

14 “Don’t let your heart be troubled.^(A) Believe^[a] in God; ^(B) believe also in me. ² In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going ^(C) to prepare a place for you? ³ If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come again^(D) and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be also.^{(E) 4} You know the way to where I am going.”^[b](F)

⁵ “Lord,” Thomas^(G) said, “we don’t know where you’re going. How can we know the way?”

⁶ Jesus told him, “I am^(H) the way,^(I) the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ⁷ If you know me, you will also know^[c] my Father.^(J) From now on you do know him^(K) and have seen him.”

Jesus Reveals the Father

⁸ “Lord,” said Philip,^(L) “show us the Father, and that’s enough for us.”

⁹ Jesus said to him, “Have I been among you all this time and you do not know me, Philip? The one who has seen me has seen the Father.^(M) How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?^(N) The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own.^(O) The Father who lives in me does his works.^{(P) 11} Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise, believe^[d] because of the works themselves.^(Q)

Praying in Jesus’s Name

¹² “Truly I tell you, the one who believes in me^(R) will also do the works that I do. And he will do even greater works than these,^(S) because I am going to the Father.^{(T) 13} Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified^(U) in the Son.^{(V) 14} If you ask me^[e] anything in my name,^(W) I will do it.^[f](X)

Another Counselor Promised

¹⁵ “If you love me, you will keep^[g] my commands.^{(Y) 16} And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor^[h](Z) to be with you forever. ¹⁷ He is the Spirit^(AA) of truth.^(AB) The world is unable to receive him because it doesn’t see him or know him. But you do know him, because he remains with you and will be^[i] in you.^(AC)

The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

¹⁸ “I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you. ¹⁹ In a little while the world will no longer see me,^(AD) but you will see me.^(AE) Because I live, you will live^(AF) too. ²⁰ On that day you will know that I am in my Father,^(AG) you are in me, and I am in you. ²¹ The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.^(AH) And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father.^(AI) I also will love him and will reveal myself to him.”

²² Judas^(AJ) (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it you’re going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?” ^(AK)

²³ Jesus answered, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.^{(AL) 24} The one who doesn’t love me will not keep my words. The word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who sent me.^(AM)

²⁵ “I have spoken these things to you while I remain with you. ²⁶ But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit,^(AN) whom the Father will send^(AO) in my name, will teach you all things^(AP) and remind you of everything I have told you.^(AQ)

Jesus’s Gift of Peace

²⁷ “Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Don’t let your heart be troubled or fearful.^{(AR) 28} You have heard me tell you, ‘I am going away^(AS) and I am coming to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father,^(AT) because the Father is greater than I.^{(AU) 29} I have told you now before it happens^(AV) so that when it does happen you may believe. ³⁰ I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of the world^(AW) is coming. He has no power over me.^{[j](AX) 31} On the contrary, so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do as the Father commanded me.

“Get up; let’s leave this place.

The Vine and the Branches

15 “I am^(AY) the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. ² Every branch in me that does not produce fruit he removes,^(AZ) and he prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit. ³ You are already clean^(BA) because of the word I have spoken to you. ⁴ Remain in me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me.^{(BB) 5} I am the vine; ^(BC) you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit,^(BD) because you can do nothing without me. ⁶ If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown aside^(BE) like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire,^(BF) and they are burned.^{(BG) 7} If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.^{(BH) 8} My Father is glorified^(BI) by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be^[k] my disciples.

Christlike Love

⁹ “As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Remain in my love.^{(BJ) 10} If you keep my commands you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.^(BK)

¹¹ “I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.^(BL)

¹² “This is my command: Love one another as I have loved^(BM) you. ¹³ No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life^(BN) for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵ I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn’t know what his master^[l](BO) is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my Father. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you.^(BP) I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask^(BQ) the Father in my name,^(BR) he will give you.^(BS)

¹⁷ “This is what I command you: Love one another.

Persecutions Predicted

¹⁸ “If the world hates^(BT) you, understand that it hated me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen^(BU) you out of it, the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word I spoke to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’^(BV) If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word,^(BW) they will also keep yours. ²¹ But they will do all these things to you on account of my name,^(BX) because they don’t know^(BY) the one who sent me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin.^(BZ) Now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ The one who hates me also hates my Father.^{(CA) 24} If I had not done the works^(CB) among them that no one else has done,^(CC) they would not be guilty of sin.^(CD) Now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But this happened so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled:^(CE) They hated me for no reason.^[m](CF)

The Counselor’s Ministry

²⁶ “When the Counselor^(CG) comes, the one I will send to you from the Father^(CH) —the Spirit of truth^(CI) who proceeds from the Father—he will testify about me. ²⁷ You also will testify,^(CJ) because you have been with me from the beginning.