14:01 .. do not let your heart be troubled .. believe in God .. believe also in me 14:02 .. In my father’s house are many dwelling places .. if it were not so .. I would have told you .. for I go to prepare a place for you 14:03 .. If I go and prepare a place for you .. I will come again and receive you to myself .. that where I am .. there you may be also 14:04 .. and you know the way where I am going 14:05 .. Thomas said to him . . . Lord .. we do not know where you are going .. how do we know the way 14:06 .. Jesus said to him . . . I am the way .. and the truth .. and the life . . . no one comes to the father but through me
.................. oneness with the father
14:07 .. If you had known me .. you would have known my father also .. from now on you know him .. and have seen him 14:08 .. Philip said to him . . . Lord .. show us the father .. and it is enough for us 14:09 .. Jesus said to him . . . have I been so long with you .. and yet you have not come to know me .. Philip . . . ......... he who has seen me has seen the father .. how can you say .. show us the father 14:10 .. do you not believe that I am in the father .. and the father is in me . . . the words that I say to you I do not speak on my own initiative .. ......... but the father abiding in me does his works 14:11 .. believe me that I am in the father and the father is in me .. otherwise believe because of the works themselves 14:12 .. truly truly I say to you .. he who believes in me .. the works that I do .. he will do also .. and greater works than these he will do .. ......... because I go to the father 14:13 .. whatever you ask in my name .. that will I do .. so that the father may be glorified in the son 14:14 .. If you ask me anything in my name . . . I will do it
14:15 .. If you love me .. you will keep my commandments
.................. role of the Spirit
14:16 .. I will ask the father .. and he will give you another helper .. that he may be with you forever 14:17 .. that is the Spirit of truth .. whom the world cannot receive .. because it does not see him or know him .. ......... but you know him because he abides with you and will be in you 14:18 .. I will not leave you as orphans .. I will come to you 14:19 .. after a little while the world will no longer see me .. but you will see me .. because I live .. you will live also
14:20 .. In that day you will know that I am in my father .. and you in me .. and I in you 14:21 .. he who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me .. and he who loves me will be loved by my father .. ......... and I will love him and will disclose myself to him 14:22 .. Judas (not Iscariot) said to him . . . Lord .. what then has happened that you are going to disclose yourself to us and not to the world 14:23 .. Jesus answered and said to him . . . If anyone loves me .. he will keep my word .. and my father will love him .. ......... and we will come to him and make our abode with him 14:24 .. he who does not love me does not keep my words .. and the word which you hear is not mine .. but the father’s who sent me
14:25 .. these things I have spoken to you while abiding with you 14:26 .. but the helper .. the Holy Spirit .. whom the father will send in my name .. he will teach you all things .. ......... and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you
14:27 .. peace I leave with you .. my peace I give to you .. not as the world gives do I give to you .. ......... do not let your heart be troubled .. nor let it be fearful
14:28 .. you heard that I said to you .. I go away .. and I will come to you .. If you loved me .. you would have rejoiced because I go to the father .. ......... for the father is greater than I 14:29 .. now I have told you before it happens .. so that when it happens .. you may believe 14:30 .. I will not speak much more with you .. for the ruler of the world is coming .. and he has nothing in me 14:31 .. but so that the world may know that I love the father .. I do exactly as the father commanded me . . . get up .. let us go from here
Jesus is the way .. let us follow him .. Jesus is the truth . let us build with confidence upon the precious truths of his comforting promises .. Jesus is the life .. let us learn to abide in him .. the source of spiritual life .. until he comes back to receive us to the prepared mansions above . . . The word “Comforter” (v 16) means “one called alongside to help” . . . the Holy Spirit is the indwelling representative of Christ on the earth .. It is he who guides us into the truth concerning Christ .. forms Christ’s purposes in our hearts .. and even prays through us (Rom 8:26)