Good News According to John

[ a translation from the Greek ]

Chapter 14


"Don't let your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. In the house of my father there are many individual places to live. Moreover if not, I would have said that I go to prepare a place for you.

"And if I make my way and prepare a place for you, I also am coming again and will receive you to myself, that where I am you also might be. And where I am going, you know the way."

Thomas said to him "Lord, we don't know where you go, how can we know the way?"

Jesus said to him, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the father if not by me. If you had known me, you also would have known my father. From now on, you know him and have seen him."

Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the father and it is enough for us."

Jesus said to him, "So long a time I am with you and you haven't known me, Philip? One who has seen me has seen the father. How do you say, show us the father? Don't you believe that I am in the father and the father is in me?

"The words that I speak to you, I don't speak from myself, but the father who lives in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the father and the father is in me. But if not, believe because of the works, believe them.

"Truly, truly, those who believe in me, the works that I do they also will do and greater than these they will do, because I make my way to the father. And whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, so that the father might be glorified in the son. If you ask anything in my name, I will do.

"If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the father and he will give you another counselor, that he may be with you forever; the spirit of truth, whom people are not able to receive, because they don't see nor know him. But you know him, because he remains with you and he will be in you.

"I won't leave you orphans, I am coming to you. Yet a little while and people see me no more, but you see me. Because I live, you also will live. In that day you will know that I am in my father and you in me and I in you.

"Those who have my commandments and keep them, they are those who love me. Moreover, those who love me will be loved by my father and I will love them and show them myself."

Judas not Iscariot said to him, "Lord, then what has happened that you are about to manifest yourself to us and not to the people?"

Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves me, they will keep my word and my father will love them. And we will come to them and will make a home with them. Those who do not love me don't keep my words. And the word which you hear isn't mine, but of the father who sent me.

"These things I have said to you remaining with you. Moreover, the counselor, the holy spirit whom the father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and will bring to your remembrance all things that I have said to you.

"Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. I give to you not as the world system gives. Don't let your inward being be troubled, nor let it fear. You heard that I said to you, I am going away and I am coming to you.

"If you loved me, you would have rejoiced that I make my way to the father, because the father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it happens, that when it happens you might believe.

"I will no longer speak with you much, for the ruler of this world comes and he has nothing in me. But that people might know that I love the father and as the father has commanded me, thus I do. Rise up, let us go from here."



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