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John 14
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

Chapter 14

Last Supper Discourses. 1 [a]“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith[b] in God; have faith also in me. 2 In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? 3 [c]And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be.(A) 4 Where [I] am going you know the way.”[d] 5 Thomas said to him, “Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth[e] and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.(B) 7 If you know me, then you will also know my Father.[f] From now on you do know him and have seen him.”(C) 8 Philip said to him, “Master, show us the Father,[g] and that will be enough for us.”(D) 9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?(E) 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works.(F) 11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else, believe because of the works themselves.(G) 12 Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father.(H) 13 And whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.(I) 14 If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it.

The Advocate. 15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.(J) 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate[h] to be with you always,(K) 17 the Spirit of truth,[i] which the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows it. But you know it, because it remains with you, and will be in you.(L) 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.[j] 19 In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me, because I live and you will live.(M) 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you.(N) 21 Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”(O) 22 Judas, not the Iscariot,[k] said to him, “Master, [then] what happened that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”(P) 23 Jesus answered and said to him, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.(Q) 24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; yet the word you hear is not mine but that of the Father who sent me.

25 “I have told you this while I am with you. 26 The Advocate, the holy Spirit that the Father will send in my name—he will teach you everything and remind you of all that [I] told you.(R) 27 Peace[l] I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.(S) 28 [m]You heard me tell you, ‘I am going away and I will come back to you.’(T) If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I. 29 And now I have told you this before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe.(U) 30 I will no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the world[n] is coming. He has no power over me, 31 but the world must know that I love the Father and that I do just as the Father has commanded me. Get up, let us go.(V)

Footnotes

  1. 14:1–31 Jesus’ departure and return. This section is a dialogue marked off by a literary inclusion in Jn 14:1, 27: “Do not let your hearts be troubled.”
  2. 14:1 You have faith: could also be imperative: “Have faith.”
  3. 14:3 Come back again: a rare Johannine reference to the parousia; cf. 1 Jn 2:28.
  4. 14:4 The way: here, of Jesus himself; also a designation of Christianity in Acts 9:2; 19:9, 23; 22:4; 24:14, 22.
  5. 14:6 The truth: in John, the divinely revealed reality of the Father manifested in the person and works of Jesus. The possession of truth confers knowledge and liberation from sin (Jn 8:32).
  6. 14:7 An alternative reading, “If you knew me, then you would have known my Father also,” would be a rebuke, as in Jn 8:19.
  7. 14:8 Show us the Father: Philip is pictured asking for a theophany like Ex 24:9–10; 33:18.
  8. 14:16 Another Advocate: Jesus is the first advocate (paraclete); see 1 Jn 2:1, where Jesus is an advocate in the sense of intercessor in heaven. The Greek term derives from legal terminology for an advocate or defense attorney, and can mean spokesman, mediator, intercessor, comforter, consoler, although no one of these terms encompasses the meaning in John. The Paraclete in John is a teacher, a witness to Jesus, and a prosecutor of the world, who represents the continued presence on earth of the Jesus who has returned to the Father.
  9. 14:17 The Spirit of truth: this term is also used at Qumran, where it is a moral force put into a person by God, as opposed to the spirit of perversity. It is more personal in John; it will teach the realities of the new order (Jn 14:26), and testify to the truth (Jn 14:6). While it has been customary to use masculine personal pronouns in English for the Advocate, the Greek word for “spirit” is neuter, and the Greek text and manuscript variants fluctuate between masculine and neuter pronouns.
  10. 14:18 I will come to you: indwelling, not parousia.
  11. 14:22 Judas, not the Iscariot: probably not the brother of Jesus in Mk 6:3 // Mt 13:55 or the apostle named Jude in Lk 6:16, but Thomas (see note on Jn 11:16), although other readings have “Judas the Cananean.”
  12. 14:27 Peace: the traditional Hebrew salutation šālôm; but Jesus’ “Shalom” is a gift of salvation, connoting the bounty of messianic blessing.
  13. 14:28 The Father is greater than I: because he sent, gave, etc., and Jesus is “a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God” (Jn 8:40).
  14. 14:30 The ruler of the world: Satan; cf. Jn 12:31; 16:11.
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道路、真理、生命

14 「你們心裡不要愁煩，要信神，也要信我。 2 在我父家裡有很多住處。如果沒有，我怎麼會告訴你們說，我去是要為你們預備地方呢？ 3 我如果去為你們預備了地方，就會再來，接你們到我那裡，好使我在哪裡，你們也能在哪裡。 4 我往哪裡去，你們知道；那條路，你們也知道。」

5 多馬說：「主啊，我們不知道你要到哪裡去，怎麼能知道那條路呢？」

6 耶穌說：「我就是道路、真理、生命。要不是藉著我，沒有人能到父那裡去。

耶穌顯明父

7 「如果你們認識我，也就會認識我的父。從今以後，你們就認識他，並且已經看到他了。」

8 腓力說：「主啊，請給我們看看父，我們就滿足了。」

9 耶穌回答說：「腓力，我與你們在一起這麼久了，你還不認識我嗎？一個人看到了我，就是看到了父。你怎麼還說『請給我們看看父』呢？ 10 難道你不相信我就在父裡面，父也在我裡面嗎？我對你們說的話，不是憑自己說的，而是住在我裡面的父，在做他的工作。 11 你們當相信我：我在父裡面，父也在我裡面。即使不信，也當因我所做的事而相信[a]。

奉耶穌的名祈求

12 「我確確實實地告訴你們：我所做的事，信我的人也要做，而且要做比這些更大的事。這是因為我就要到父那裡去了。 13 你們奉我的名無論求什麼，我將行這事，好使父藉著子得榮耀。 14 如果你們奉我的名向我[b]求什麼，我將成就。[c]

應許賜聖靈

15 「你們如果愛我，就會遵守我的命令。[d] 16 我也要向父祈求，他就將賜給你們另一位慰助者，讓他與你們在[e]一起，直到永遠。 17 他就是真理的靈，是世界不能接受的，因為世界看不到他，也不認識他。而你們認識他，因為他與你們同在，並且要在你們裡面。 18 我不會撇下你們為孤兒，我要回到你們這裡來。

父、子、聖靈

19 「再過一會兒，世人不再看到我了，而你們將看到我。因為我活著，你們也將活著。 20 在那一天，你們就會明白：我在我父裡面，你們在我裡面，我也在你們裡面。 21 那領受我命令並遵守的人，就是愛我的。愛我的會蒙我父所愛，我也會愛他，並且會向他顯明我自己。」

22 不是加略人的那個猶大問耶穌：「主啊，怎麼會這樣呢？你為什麼要向我們顯明自己，而不向世人顯明呢？」

23 耶穌回答說：「如果有人愛我，他就會遵守我的話語，我父也會愛他，而且我們將要來到他那裡，並且在他那裡安置我們的住處。 24 不愛我的人，就不遵守我的話語。事實上，你們所聽見的話語，不是我的，而是那派我來的父的話語。

25 「我還與你們在一起的時候，已經把這些事告訴了你們。 26 但那位慰助者，就是父以我的名所要派遣的聖靈，將要把一切的事教導你們，並且讓你們想起我對你們說過的一切。

耶穌賜平安

27 「我把平安留給你們，我把我的平安賜給你們。我給你們的，不像世界所給的。你們心裡不要愁煩，也不要膽怯。 28 你們聽過我對你們說：『我去了，還要回到你們這裡來。』如果你們愛我，就會為了我到父那裡去而感到歡喜。這是因為父比我更大。 29 如今，在事情發生以前我已經告訴你們了，好讓你們在事情發生的時候能相信。 30 我不再對你們多說了。要知道，世界的那掌權者就要來了，而他對我毫無作用。 31 不過我照著父的吩咐如此去做，是為要世界知道我愛父。

「起來，我們走吧！

Footnotes

  1. 約翰福音 14:11 有古抄本附「我」。
  2. 約翰福音 14:14 有古抄本沒有「向我」。
  3. 約翰福音 14:14 有古抄本沒有此節。
  4. 約翰福音 14:15 就會遵守我的命令。——有古抄本作「就應當遵守我的命令。」
  5. 約翰福音 14:16 在——有古抄本作「住在」。
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