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 Son Gives Knowledge and Rest

²⁵ At that time Jesus said,^(A) “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants.^{(B) 26} Yes, Father, because this was your good pleasure.^{[a] 27} All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires^[b] to reveal him.^(C)

¹² There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people by which we must be saved.”^(A)

Exhortations to Godliness

¹⁹ Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have boldness to enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus^(A)— ²⁰ he has inaugurated^[a] for us a new and living way through the curtain (that is, through his flesh^(B))— ²¹ and since we have a great high priest over the house of God,^{(C) 22} let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.^(D)