John:14

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* »Let not your hearts be troubled . Trust in God : trust in me also . * In my Father 's house there are many resting-places . Were it otherwise , I would have told you ; for I am going to make ready a place for you . * And if I go and make ready a place for you , I will return and take you to be with me , that where I am you also may be . * And where I am going , you all know the way .« * »Master ,« said Thomas , »we do not know where you are going . In what sense do we know the way ?« * »I am the Way ,« replied Jesus , »and the Truth and the Life . No one comes to the Father except through me . * If you –all of you – knew me , you would fully know my Father also . From this time forward you know Him and have seen Him .« * »Master ,« said Philip , »cause us to see the Father : that is all we need .« * »Have I been so long among you ,« Jesus answered , »and yet you , Philip , do not know me ? He who has seen me has seen the Father . How can ask me , `Cause us to see the Father '? * Do you not believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me ? The things that I tell you all I do not speak on my own authority : but the Father dwelling within me carries on His own work . * Believe me , all of you , that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me ; or at any rate , believe me because of what I do . * In most solemn truth I tell you that he who trusts in me –the things which I do he shall do also ; and greater things than these he shall do , because I am going to the Father . * And whatever any of you ask in my name , I will do , in order that the Father may be glorified in the Son . * If you make any request of me in my name , I will do it . * »If you love me , you will obey my commandments . * And I will ask the Father , and He will give you another Advocate to be for ever with you –the Spirit of truth . * That Spirit the world cannot receive , because it does not see Him or know Him . You know Him , because He remains by your side and is in you . * I will not leave you bereaved : I am coming to you . * Yet a little while and the world will see me no more , but you will see me : because I live , you also shall live . * At that time you will know that I am in my Father , and that you are in me , and that I am in you . * He who has my commandments and obeys them –he it is who loves me . And he who loves me will be loved by my Father , and I will love him and will clearly reveal myself to him .« * Judas (not the Iscariot ) asked , »Master , how is it that you will reveal yourself clearly to us and not to the world ?« * »If any one loves me ,« replied Jesus , »he will obey my teaching ; and my Father will love him , and we will come to him and make our home with him . * He who has no love for me does not obey my teaching ; and yet the teaching to which you are listening is not mine , but is the teaching of the Father who sent me . * »All this I have spoken to you while still with you .« * But the Advocate , the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request , will teach you everything , and will bring to your memories all that I have said to you . * Peace I leave with you : my own peace I give to you . It is not as the world gives its greetings that I give you peace . Let not your hearts be troubled or dismayed . * »You heard me say to you , `I am going away , and yet I am coming to you .' If you loved me , you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father ; for the Father is greater than I am . * I have now told you before it comes to pass , that when it has come to pass you may believe . * In future I shall not talk much with you , for the Prince of this world is coming . And yet in me he has nothing ; * but it is in order that the world may know that I love the Father , and that it is in obedience to the command which the Father gave me that I thus act . Rise , let us be going .«

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