1"Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. 2In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. 3If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also. 4Where I go, you know, and you know the way." 5Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going. How can we know the way?" 6Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. 7If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him." 8Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us." 9Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?' 10Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works. 11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works' sake. 12Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father. 13Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it. 15If you love me, keep my commandments. 16I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,-- 17the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you. 18I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. 19Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also. 20In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him." 22Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?" 23Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. 24He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me. 25I have said these things to you, while still living with you. 26But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you. 27Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful. 28You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I. 29Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you may believe. 30I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me. 31But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
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John 14 — I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life
John 14 stands as part of Jesus's "Farewell Discourse"—His final words to the disciples before the cross. The chapter opens with profound consolation: "Let not your heart be troubled." Then comes one of Scripture's most magnificent promises: "In my Father's house are many mansions... I go to prepare a place for you" (14:2). The Greek word moné speaks of permanence—not temporary lodgings, but an eternal home. When Thomas asks how they might know the way, Jesus responds with perhaps the most celebrated of all His "I am" declarations: "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me" (14:6). Notice the definite articles in the Greek—not merely a way among many options, but THE Way. The exclusivity is absolute and intentional. Philip then makes his request: "Lord, show us the Father." Jesus's reply cuts to the heart of His identity: "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father" (14:9)—an explicit claim to deity that would have been unmistakable to His Jewish audience. The chapter concludes with the promise of the Holy Spirit, the parakletos—the Comforter, the Advocate, the Helper—and with a peace that transcends all earthly understanding, a peace the world cannot manufacture or comprehend. These words were spoken mere hours before the crucifixion, in the upper room on the night of betrayal. Jesus offers comfort to His disciples on the eve of the darkest day of their lives, speaking not of escape but of eternal security and unshakeable peace.
The Upper Room in Jerusalem, the night before the crucifixion (c. AD 30). Jesus speaks to the eleven disciples, Judas having already departed.
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