John 14-15

New King James Version

The Way, the Truth, and the Life

14 “Let ^(A)not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. ² In My Father’s house are many ^[a]mansions; if it were not so, ^[b]I would have told you. ^(B)I go to prepare a place for you. ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, ^(C)I will come again and receive you to Myself; that ^(D)where I am, there you may be also. ⁴ And where I go you know, and the way you know.”

^5 (E)Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”

⁶ Jesus said to him, “I am ^(F)the way, ^(G)the truth, and ^(H)the life. ^(I)No one comes to the Father ^(J)except through Me.

The Father Revealed

^7 (K)“If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”

⁸ Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”

⁹ Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? ^(L)He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that ^(M)I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you ^(N)I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. ¹¹ Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, ^(O)or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.

The Answered Prayer

^12 (P)“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. ^13 (Q)And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be ^(R)glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ If you ^[c]ask anything in My name, I will do it.

Jesus Promises Another Helper

^15 (S)“If you love Me, ^[d]keep My commandments. ¹⁶ And I will pray the Father, and ^(T)He will give you another ^[e]Helper, that He may abide with you forever— ^17 (U)the Spirit of truth, ^(V)whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you ^(W)and will be in you. ^18 (X)I will not leave you orphans; ^(Y)I will come to you.

Indwelling of the Father and the Son

¹⁹ “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but ^(Z)you will see Me. ^(AA)Because I live, you will live also. ²⁰ At that day you will know that ^(AB)I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. ^21 (AC)He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and ^[f]manifest Myself to him.”

^22 (AD)Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, ^(AE)and We will come to him and make Our home with him. ²⁴ He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and ^(AF)the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.

The Gift of His Peace

²⁵ “These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. ²⁶ But ^(AG)the ^[g]Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will ^(AH)send in My name, ^(AI)He will teach you all things, and bring to your ^(AJ)remembrance all things that I said to you. ^27 (AK)Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. ²⁸ You have heard Me ^(AL)say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because ^[h]I said, ^(AM)‘I am going to the Father,’ for ^(AN)My Father is greater than I.

²⁹ “And ^(AO)now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe. ³⁰ I will no longer talk much with you, ^(AP)for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has ^(AQ)nothing in Me. ³¹ But that the world may know that I love the Father, and ^(AR)as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

The True Vine

15 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. ^2 (AS)Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He ^[i]takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear ^(AT)more fruit. ^3 (AU)You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. ^4 (AV)Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

⁵ “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much ^(AW)fruit; for without Me you can do ^(AX)nothing. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in Me, ^(AY)he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷ If you abide in Me, and My words ^(AZ)abide in you, ^(BA)you^[j] will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. ^8 (BB)By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; ^(BC)so you will be My disciples.

Love and Joy Perfected

⁹ “As the Father ^(BD)loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. ^10 (BE)If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

¹¹ “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and ^(BF)that your joy may be full. ^12 (BG)This is My ^(BH)commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ^13 (BI)Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. ^14 (BJ)You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, ^(BK)for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. ^16 (BL)You did not choose Me, but I chose you and ^(BM)appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father ^(BN)in My name He may give you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, that you love one another.

The World’s Hatred

^18 (BO)“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. ^19 (BP)If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet ^(BQ)because 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, ^(BR)‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. ^(BS)If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. ²¹ But ^(BT)all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. ^22 (BU)If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, ^(BV)but now they have no excuse for their sin. ^23 (BW)He who hates Me hates My Father also. ²⁴ If I had not done among them ^(BX)the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have ^(BY)seen and also hated both Me and My Father. ²⁵ But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ^(BZ)‘They hated Me without a cause.’

The Coming Rejection

^26 (CA)“But when the ^[k]Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, ^(CB)He will testify of Me. ²⁷ And ^(CC)you also will bear witness, because ^(CD)you have been with Me from the beginning.