The Way, the Truth, the Life

1“Do not let your (pl) heart be distressed; you believe into God and you believe into me. ⁴²²

2In my Father's house are many dwellings ⁴²³(otherwise I would have told you). ⁴²⁴I am going away to prepare a place for you.

3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be also. ⁴²⁵

4Now you know where I am going, and you know the way.”

Thomas' question

5Thomas says to Him, “Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” ⁴²⁶

6Jesus says to him: “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one goes to the Father except through me. ⁴²⁷

7If you had known me, you would have known my Father as well; ⁴²⁸from now on you both know Him and have seen Him.”

Philip's question

8Philip says to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”

9Jesus says to him: “Such a long time I have been with you, and you have not known me, Philip? ⁴²⁹He who has seen me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

10Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own; rather it is the Father who dwells in me who does the works. ⁴³⁰

11Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or else, believe me because of the works themselves. ⁴³¹

“Greater works than these”

12“Most assuredly I say to you, ⁴³²the one believing into me, he too will do the works that I do; ⁴³³in fact he will do greater works than these, ⁴³⁴because I am going to my Father.

13Further, whatever you (pl) may ask in my name, ⁴³⁵that I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

14If you ask anything in my name, I will do it!

15If you love me, keep my commandments.

16Also, ⁴³⁶I will ask the Father and He will give you another Enabler, ⁴³⁷so that He may stay with you throughout the age ⁴³⁸

17—the Spirit of the Truth, ⁴³⁹whom the world is unable to receive, ⁴⁴⁰because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you do know Him, because He is staying with you and will be in you. ⁴⁴¹

18“I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you [shortly]. ⁴⁴²

19In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live you also will live. ⁴⁴³

20In that day ⁴⁴⁴you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

21The one who has my commandments and keeps them, he is the one who loves me. Now the one who loves me will be loved by my Father; and I will love him, and reveal myself to him.” ⁴⁴⁵

Judas' question

22Judas (not the Iscariot) says to Him, “Lord, just how is it that You are going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”

23Jesus answered and said to him: “If anyone loves me he will keep my word. So my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. ⁴⁴⁶

24The one who does not love me does not keep my words; ⁴⁴⁷further, the word which you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

The Teacher, the peace; the Father, the enemy

25“I have spoken these things to you while being with you.

26But the Enabler, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things and remind you of everything I said to you. ⁴⁴⁸

27“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you; it is not like the world gives that I give to you. ⁴⁴⁹Do not let your heart be distressed or intimidated. ⁴⁵⁰

28“You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me you would have been glad that I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ because my Father is greater than I. ⁴⁵¹

29I have told you now, before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe.

30“I will no longer talk much with you, because the ruler of the world is approaching; ⁴⁵²actually, he has nothing in me. ⁴⁵³

31Rather, I habitually do just as the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. ⁴⁵⁴“Get up, let us leave here. ⁴⁵⁵