Chapter 14

¹“Your minds must not be troubled; you must believe in God, and believe in me. ²There are many rooms in my Father’s house; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you. ³And if I go and make it ready, I will come back and take you with me, so that you may be where I am. ⁴You know the way to the place where I am going.”

⁵Thomas said to him,

“Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?”

⁶Jesus said to him,

“I am Way and Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me. ⁷If you knew me, you would know my Father also. From now on you do know him and you have seen him.”

⁸Philip said to him,

“Master, let us see the Father, and it will satisfy us.”

⁹Jesus said to him,

“Have I been with you so long, and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Let us see the Father’? ¹⁰Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and the Father is in union with me? I am not the source of the words that I say to you, but the Father who is united with me is doing these things himself. ¹¹You must believe that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me, or else you must believe because of the things themselves. ¹²I tell you, whoever believes in me will do such things as I do, and things greater yet, because I am going to the Father. ¹³Anything you ask for as followers of mine I will grant, so that the Father may be honored through the Son. ¹⁴I will grant anything you ask me for as my followers.

¹⁵“If you really love me, you will observe my commands. ¹⁶And I will ask the Father and he will give you another Helper to be with you always. ¹⁷It is the Spirit of Truth. The world cannot obtain that Spirit, because it does not see it or recognize it; you recognize it because it stays with you and is within you. ¹⁸I am not going to leave you friendless. I am coming back to you. ¹⁹In a little while the world will not see me any more, but you will still see me, because I shall live on, and you will live on too. ²⁰When that day comes you will know that I am in union with my Father and you are with me and I am with you. ²¹It is he who has my commands and observes them that really loves me, and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and show myself to him.”

²²Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said to him,

“Master, how does it happen that you are going to show yourself to us and not to the world?”

²³Jesus answered,

“Anyone who loves me will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and live with him. ²⁴No one who does not love me will observe my teaching, and yet the teaching you are listening to is not mine but is that of him who has sent me.

²⁵“I have told you this while I am still staying with you, ²⁶but the Helper, the holy Spirit which the Father will send in my place, will teach you everything and remind you of everything that I have told you. ²⁷I leave you a blessing; I give you my own blessing. I do not give it to you as the world gives. Your minds must not be troubled or afraid. ²⁸You have heard me say that I am going away and am coming back to you; if you loved me you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. ²⁹And I have told you of it now before it happens, in order that when it happens you may believe in me. ³⁰I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil genius of the world is coming. He has nothing in common with me, ³¹but he is coming that the world may know that I love the Father and am doing what he has commanded me to do. Come, let us go away.