John 14:1-20

I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life

1 d "Let not your hearts be troubled. e Believe in God; 1 believe also in me. 2 In f my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that g I go to prepare a place for you? 2 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you h to myself, that i where I am you may be also. 4 And you know the way to where I am going." 3 5 j Thomas said to him, "Lord, k we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?" 6 Jesus said to him, "I am l the way, and m the truth, and n the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 o If you had known me, you would have p known my Father also. 4 From now on you do know him and q have seen him."

8 r Philip said to him, "Lord, s 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? t Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? 10 Do you not believe that u I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you v I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. 11 Believe me that u I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else w believe on account of the works themselves.

12 "Truly, truly, I say to you, x whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I y am going to the Father. 13 z Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that a the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 z If you ask me 5 anything in my name, I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

15 b "If you love me, you will c keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another d Helper, 6 to be with you forever, 17 even e the Spirit of truth, f whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and g will be in you.

18 "I will not leave you as orphans; h I will come to you. 19 i Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but j you will see me. k Because I live, you also will live. 20 l In that day you will know that m I am in my Father, and n you in me, and o I in you.

  1. Cross References
    John 14:27
    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.
    John 16:22 - 23
    So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
    1 Peter 3:14
    But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled.
  2. Cross References
    John 12:44
    And Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me.
  3. Cross References
    John 2:16
    And he told those who sold the pigeons, "Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.
  4. Cross References
    John 16:7
    Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
    John 8:21 - 22
    So he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.
    John 13:33
    Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, 'Where I am going you cannot come.
    John 13:36
    Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered him, "Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.
  5. Cross References
    John 14:18
    I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
    John 14:28
    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.
    John 21:22 - 23
    Jesus said to him, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me!
  6. Cross References
    John 12:26
    If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
  7. Cross References
    John 11:16
    So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him.
  8. Cross References
    John 13:36
    Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered him, "Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.
  9. Cross References
    Hebrews 9:8
    By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing
    Hebrews 10:20
    By the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh.
    Ephesians 2:18
    For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
  10. Cross References
    John 1:14
    And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
    John 1:17
    For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
    1 John 5:20
    And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
  11. Cross References
    John 11:25
    Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.
  12. Cross References
    John 8:19
    They said to him therefore, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.
  13. Cross References
    1 John 2:13 - 14
    I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the Father.
  14. Cross References
    John 6:46
    Not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.
  15. Cross References
    John 1:43 - 44
    The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow me.
    John 12:21
    So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus.
  16. Cross References
    Exodus 33:18
    Moses said, "Please show me your glory.
  17. Cross References
    John 12:45
    And whoever sees me sees him who sent me.
    John 10:30
    I and the Father are one.
    John 15:24
    If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.
    Colossians 1:15
    He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
    Hebrews 1:3
    He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
  18. Cross References
    John 10:38
    But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.
  19. Cross References
    John 5:19 - 20
    So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
  20. Cross References
    John 14:10
    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.
  21. Cross References
    John 5:36
    But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.
  22. Cross References
    Matthew 17:20
    He said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.
    Matthew 21:21
    And Jesus answered them, "Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' it will happen.
    Mark 11:23
    Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
    Mark 16:17
    And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues.
  23. Cross References
    John 14:28
    You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and ...
    John 16:28
    I came from the Father and have come into the w...
    John 7:33
    Jesus then said, "I will be with you a little l...
    John 13:1
    Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesu...
    John 13:3
    Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all th...
    John 16:5
    But now I am going to him who sent me, and none...
    John 16:10
    Concerning righteousness, because I go to the F...
    John 16:17
    So some of his disciples said to one another, "...
    John 17:11
    And I am no longer in the world, but they are i...
    John 17:13
    But now I am coming to you, and these things I ...
    John 20:17
    Jesus said to her, "Do not cling to me, for I h...
  24. Cross References
    John 15:16
    You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
    John 16:23 - 24
    In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
    Matthew 7:7
    Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
  25. Cross References
    John 13:31
    When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
  26. Cross References
    John 14:13
    Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
  27. Cross References
    John 14:21
    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.
    John 14:23
    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.
    John 15:10
    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.
    1 John 5:3
    For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
    2 John 1:6
    And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.
  28. Cross References
    1 John 2:3
    And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.
  29. Cross References
    John 14:26
    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.
    John 15:26
    But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
    John 16:7
    Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
  30. Cross References
    John 15:26
    But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to ...
    John 16:13
    When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide y...
    1 Corinthians 2:12 - 14
    Now we have received not the spirit of the worl...
    1 John 2:27
    But the anointing that you received from him ab...
    1 John 4:6
    We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to u...
    1 John 5:7
    For there are three that testify:
  31. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 2:14
    The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
  32. Cross References
    Acts 2:4
    And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
    1 John 2:27
    But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie - just as it has taught you, abide in him.
    2 John 1:2
    Because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:
    Romans 8:9
    You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
  33. Cross References
    John 14:3
    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.
    John 14:28
    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.
  34. Cross References
    John 7:33
    Jesus then said, "I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.
  35. Cross References
    John 12:45
    And whoever sees me sees him who sent me.
    John 16:16
    "A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me."
  36. Cross References
    Romans 5:10
    For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
    Ephesians 2:5
    Even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ - by grace you have been saved -
    Revelation 20:4
    Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
  37. Cross References
    John 16:23
    In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
    John 16:26
    In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf.
  38. Cross References
    John 14:10
    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.
  39. Cross References
    John 15:4 - 7
    Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
    1 John 2:28
    And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.
  40. Cross References
    John 17:21
    That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
    John 17:23
    I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
    John 17:26
    I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.
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