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“I AM the Way and the Truth and the Life”
1 Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Keep putting ᵖyour faith in God, and keep placing it, too, in me.
2 In my Father’s house there are indeed many rooms. If it were not so, I would have told ᵖyou. For I am about to go in order to make ready a place for ᵖyou,
3 and if I go and make ready a place for ᵖyou, I will surely come again and receive ᵖyou to myself, so that where I am, you yourselves may be, too.
4 And as for where I am going, ᵖyou know the way.”
5 “Lord,” Thomas said to him, “we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
6 “I AM+ the way and the truth and the life,” replied Jesus. “No one can come to the Father except through me.
7 If ᵖyou have known me, you will know, too, my Father. In fact, from this time forward ᵖyou do know him and have seen him.”
8 “Lord,” Philip said to him, “please show us the Father; that is all we need.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Though I have been with ᵖyou disciples all this time, do ˢyou still not know me, Philip? If someone has seen me, he has seen the Father. How in the world, then, can ˢyou say, ‘Please show us the Father’?
10 Surely ˢyou believe that I am united with the Father, don’t you, and the Father united with me? The words that I speak to ᵖyou I speak not on my own authority. It is the Father, rather, who dwells in me, who performs his mighty deeds.
11 Trust me when I say that I am united with the Father and the Father united with me; or at least believe it, if for no other reason, on the evidence of the miraculous deeds themselves.
12 Amen, amen, I solemnly tell ᵖyou this: If someone has faith in me, the same kinds of powerful deeds that I have been doing, that person, too, himself will do. In fact, he will do even greater things than these, since it is the very presence of the Father to which I am returning;
13 whatever ᵖyou request in my name, this I will do, so that the Father may receive honor and glory through the Son.
14 If ᵖyou ask me in my name for anything, I will do it.
15 “If ᵖyou love me, you will obey my commandments.
16 And I will present my request to the Father, and he will give ᵖyou indeed another Helper who will guide and strengthen you and make appeals on your behalf, to be with you forever and ever into the ages—
17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world will not be able to accept, since it will neither see him nor recognize him. It is ᵖyou who will recognize him, for he will dwell among ᵖyou and will be inside ᵖyou.
18 I will not leave ᵖyou helpless like orphans; I will surely come to you.
19 In a little while the world will see me no longer. You yourselves, however, will see me. Because I live again, ᵖyou, too, will yourselves experience new life.
20 At that time ᵖyou will know that I am united with my Father, and ᵖyou with me, and I with ᵖyou.
21 Those who have my commandments and obey them, they are the ones who love me. And if someone loves me, he will be loved by my Father, and I myself will love him, too, and will cause my glory to appear to him.”
22 “Lord, what has happened?” Judas (not Judas Iscariot) asked him. “Why are you going to cause your glory to appear only to us, and not to the rest of the world?”
23 “If someone loves me,” replied Jesus, “he will obey my teaching. And my Father will love him, and we will to him surely appear, and will make for ourselves a dwelling place within him.
24 He who does not love me does not obey my teaching. The teaching ᵖyou hear comes not from me, but from the Father, who sent me.
25 These things I have spoken to ᵖyou while still with you.
26 Yet the one who will come to your aid and give you strength and make appeals on your behalf, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name—he will teach ᵖyou all things and remind you of everything I’ve said to you.
27 Peace is what I am leaving with ᵖyou; it is my own peace that I am giving you. I am giving ᵖyou peace not in the same way that the world does. Don’t let your hearts be troubled or afraid.
28 ᵖYou’ve heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, but I will surely come to you.’ If ᵖyou truly loved me, you would rejoice that I am returning to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.
29 And now I have told ᵖyou before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.
30 I don’t have very much time left to talk with you, because the ruler of the world is coming. On me he has no claim.
31 Nevertheless, so that the world may know that I love the Father, I will do exactly as the Father has commanded me. Get up, let us leave this place.