1 “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. 2 In 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. 3 If 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. 4 You know where I go, and you know the way.” 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him and have seen him.” 8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” 9 Jesus 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’? 10 Don’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. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake. 12 Most 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. 13 Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it. 15 If you love me, keep my commandments. 16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counsellor, that he may be with you forever: 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive, for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also. 20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 One 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.” 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 Jesus 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. 24 He 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. 25 “I have said these things to you while still living with you. 26 But the Counsellor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful. 28 You heard how I told you, ‘I am going away, and I will come back 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. 29 Now I have told you before it happens so that when it happens, you may believe. 30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me. 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here.
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- 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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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 …
… strength sufficient to enjoy Thee; but I found it not until I embraced that "Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus," "who is over all, God blessed for ever," calling unto me, and saying, "I am the way, the truth, and the life," and mingling that food which I was unable to receive with our flesh.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)