John 14:1-20

1“Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me.

2There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?

3When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am.

4And you know the way to where I am going.”

5“No, we don’t know, Lord,” Thomas said. “We have no idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

6Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

7If you had really known me, you would know who my Father is. From now on, you do know him and have seen him!”

8Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.”

9Jesus replied, “Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and yet you still don’t know who I am? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father! So why are you asking me to show him to you?

10Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak are not my own, but my Father who lives in me does his work through me.

11Just believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or at least believe because of the work you have seen me do.

12“I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father.

13You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring glory to the Father.

14Yes, ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it!

15“If you love me, obey my commandments.

16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you.

17He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you.

18No, I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you.

19Soon the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Since I live, you also will live.

20When I am raised to life again, you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.