1 “Don't be anxious. Trust in God, trust in me as well. 2 In my Father's house there are many rooms. If this wasn't so I would have told you. I'm going to prepare a place for you. 3 Once I've gone and prepared a place for you, I will come again and take you back with me, so that you can be there with me too. 4 You know the way to where I'm going.” 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don't know where you're going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus replied, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and you have seen him.” 8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father, and we'll be convinced.” 9 Jesus replied, “Have I been with you such a long time, Philip, and yet you still don't know me? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don't you believe that I live in the Father and the Father lives in me? The words I speak are not mine; it's the Father living in me who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I tell you that I live in the Father, and the Father lives in me, or at least believe because of the evidence provided by all that I've done. 12 I tell you the truth, anyone who trusts in me will do the same things I am doing. In fact they will do even greater things because I am going to the Father. 13 I'll do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified through the Son. 14 Whatever you ask for in my name, I will do it. 15 If you love me, you will keep my commands. 16 I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, 17 the Spirit of truth, who will always be with you. The world cannot accept him because it isn't looking for him and doesn't know him. But you know him because he lives with you and will be in you. 18 I will not abandon you like orphans: I will come back to you. 19 Soon the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you will live too. 20 On that day you will know that I live in the Father, you live in me, and I live in you. 21 Those who keep my commands are the ones who love me, those who love me will be loved by my Father. I will love them too, and will reveal myself to them.” 22 Judas (not Iscariot) responded, “Lord, why would you reveal yourself to us and not to the world?” 23 Jesus replied, “Those who love me will do as I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with them. 24 Those who don't love me don't do what I say. These words don't come from me, they come from the Father who sent me. 25 I'm explaining this to you while I'm still here with you. 26 But when the Father sends the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, in my place, he will teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I'm giving you. The peace I give you is nothing like what the world gives. Don't be anxious, and don't be afraid. 28 You've heard me tell you, ‘I am going away, but I will come back to you.’ If you really loved me, you would be happy because I'm going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29 I've explained this to you now before it happens so that when it does happen you will be convinced. 30 I can't talk to you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no power to control me, 31 but I'm doing what my Father told me to do so that the world will know that I love the Father. Now get up. Let's go.”
John 14 Free Bible Version
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Cross references (30)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 26:3; John 16:22–23; Isaiah 12:2–3; 2 Corinthians 12:9–10; John 14:27–28
- 2 2 Corinthians 5:1; John 13:36; Hebrews 13:14; Revelation 21:2; Hebrews 11:10
- 3 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17; John 12:26; 2 Timothy 2:12; Acts 1:11; Hebrews 9:28
- 4 John 10:9; John 16:28; John 6:68–69; John 6:40; Luke 24:26
- 5 John 11:16; Mark 9:19; John 20:25–28; Mark 8:17–18; Luke 24:25
- 6 Acts 4:12; John 10:9; Ephesians 2:18; John 11:25–26; John 1:4
- 7 Colossians 1:15–17; John 8:19; Luke 10:22; John 17:8; John 17:6
- 8 Exodus 33:18–23; Revelation 22:3–5; John 1:43–46; John 16:25; Psalm 17:15
- 9 Colossians 1:15; John 12:45; John 14:7; Hebrews 1:3; John 10:30
- 10 John 5:19; John 10:38; Acts 10:38; John 8:28; John 10:30
- 11 John 10:25; John 10:38; John 5:36; John 14:10; Acts 2:22
- 12 Matthew 21:21; Mark 16:17; Luke 10:17–19; Acts 16:18; Acts 19:12
- 13 John 15:7; Mark 11:24; Matthew 7:7; Matthew 21:22; 1 John 5:14
- 15 1 John 2:3–5; 1 John 5:2–3; John 14:21–24; 2 John 6; John 15:10–14
- 16 John 14:26; John 15:26; John 16:7–15; Romans 15:13; Romans 8:26–27
- 17 Ezekiel 36:27; John 16:13; 1 John 2:27; 1 John 4:6; John 15:26
- 18 John 14:3; Psalm 23:4; John 14:27–28; John 14:16; Matthew 18:20
- 19 John 16:16; John 7:33; John 6:56–58; Hebrews 7:25; Colossians 3:3–4
- 20 John 15:5–7; Galatians 2:20; John 17:21–23; John 17:26; John 14:10
- 21 John 14:15; 1 John 5:3; 1 John 2:5; 2 John 6; John 15:9–10
- 22 Acts 1:13; Luke 6:16; Acts 10:40–41; Matthew 10:3; John 3:4
- 23 John 14:21; John 14:15; Revelation 3:20–21; 1 John 4:15–16; 1 John 2:24
- 24 John 7:16; John 14:10; John 5:19; John 3:34; John 8:42
- 25 John 17:6–8; John 13:19; John 16:1–4; John 16:12; John 14:29
- 26 John 15:26; John 14:16; 1 Corinthians 2:10–13; 1 John 2:27; John 16:7
- 27 Philippians 4:7; John 16:33; Isaiah 41:10; 2 Thessalonians 3:16; Colossians 3:15
- 28 John 10:29–30; 1 Corinthians 15:24–28; 1 Corinthians 11:3; John 13:16; Philippians 2:6–11
- 29 John 13:19; John 16:4–31; Matthew 24:24–25
- 30 1 John 5:19; 1 John 4:4; Revelation 12:9; Ephesians 6:12; John 12:31
- 31 John 12:49; John 10:18; Luke 12:50; Philippians 2:8; John 4:34
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What the Fathers said
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Amongst other things, when the Holy Gospel was being read, ye heard what the Lord Jesus said, "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life." Truth and life doth every man desire; but not every man doth find the way.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
We have now the opportunity, dearly, beloved, as far as we can, of understanding the earlier words of the Lord from the later, and His previous statements by those that follow, in what you have heard was His answer to the question of the Apostle Thomas.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
The Prophet said to the Jews, "Thou hadst the countenance of a harlot, thou wert shameless towards all men." ( Jer. iii. 3, LXX.) Now it seems fitting to use this expression not only against that city, but against all who shamelessly set their faces against the truth.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 14 (1889)
… He might come under the apprehension of man's senses, and having in Himself these six and twenty-four letters), then, becoming acquainted with Him, they ceased from their ignorance, and passed from death unto life, this name serving as their guide to the Father of truth. For the Father of all had resolved to put an end to ignorance, and to …
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)