John 14

The Way to the Father John 14:4–11

⁴Verse 4. Where I go, you know, and you know the way.” ⁵Verse 5. Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ⁶Verse 6. Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. ⁷Verse 7. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.” ⁸Verse 8. Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” ⁹Verse 9. Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

¹⁰Verse 10. Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works. ¹¹Verse 11. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.

Promise of Greater Works John 14:12–14

¹²Verse 12. Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father. ¹³Verse 13. Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴Verse 14. If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.

Love and Obedience John 14:15–21

¹⁵Verse 15. If you love me, keep my commandments. ¹⁶Verse 16. I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,— ¹⁷Verse 17. the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you. ¹⁸Verse 18. I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. ¹⁹Verse 19. Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also. ²⁰Verse 20. In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

²¹Verse 21. One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

Revelation and Relationship John 14:22–24

²²Verse 22. Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?” ²³Verse 23. Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. ²⁴Verse 24. He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

Role of the Holy Spirit John 14:25–27

²⁵Verse 25. I have said these things to you, while still living with you. ²⁶Verse 26. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you. ²⁷Verse 27. Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Overcoming the World John 14:28–31

²⁸Verse 28. You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I. ²⁹Verse 29. Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you may believe. ³⁰Verse 30. I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me. ³¹Verse 31. But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.