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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.