John 14 - Doctrine that Helps, Comforts, and Advises
Jesus responds to our confusion with deep theology that brings ultimate peace.
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John 14 (ESV)
1 “Let not your hearts be troubled.
Believe
in God;
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 go to prepare a place for you?
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you,
I
will come again
and
will take you to myself,
that where I am you may be also.
4 And you know the way to where I am going.”
5 Thomas said to him,
“Lord, 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,
and the life.
No one
comes to the Father
except through me.
7 If you had known me,
you would have known my Father also.
From now on
you do know him
and have seen him.”
8 Philip said to him,
“Lord, show us the Father,
and it is enough for us.”
9 Jesus said to him,
“Have I been with you so long,
and you still do not know me, Philip?
Whoever
has seen me
has seen the Father.
How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
10 Do you not believe that
I am in the Father
and the Father is in me?
The words that I say to you
I do not speak on my own authority,
but the Father
who dwells in me
does his works.
11 Believe me that
I am in the Father
and the Father is in me,
or else believe on account of the works themselves.
12 “Truly, truly, I say to you,
whoever
believes in me
will also do the works that I do;
and greater works than these will he do,
because I am going to the Father.
13 Whatever you ask in my name,
this I will do,
that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you ask me anything
in my name,
I will do it.
15 “If you love me,
you will keep my commandments.
16 And
I will ask the Father,
and he will give you
another Helper,
to be with you forever,
17 even the Spirit of truth,
whom the world cannot receive,
because it
neither sees him
nor knows him.
You know him,
for he dwells with you
and will be in you.
18 “I will not leave you as orphans;
I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while
and the world will see me no more,
but you will see me.
Because I live, you also will live.
20 In that day you will know that
I am in my Father,
and you in me,
and I in you.
21 Whoever
has my commandments
and keeps them,
he it is who loves me.
And he who loves me
will be loved by my Father,
and I will love him
and manifest myself to him.”
22 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 him,
“If anyone loves me,
he will keep my word,
and my Father will love him,
and
we will come to him
and make our home with him.
24 Whoever does not love me
does not keep my words.
And the word that you hear
is not mine
but the Father’s who sent me.
25 “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you.
26 But the Helper,
the Holy Spirit,
whom
the Father will send
in my name,
he will
teach you all things
and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
27 Peace I leave with you;
my peace I give to you.
Not as the world gives
do I give to you.
Let
not your hearts be troubled,
neither let them be afraid.
28 You heard me say to you,
‘I am going away,
and I will come to you.’
If you loved me,
you would have rejoiced,
because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
29 And now I have told you
before it takes place,
so that
when it does take place
you may believe.
30 I will no longer talk much with you,
for the ruler of this world is coming.
He has no claim on me,
31 but I do as the Father has commanded me,
so that the world may know that I love the Father.
Rise, let us go from here.