1“Do not let your heart be troubled. Have faith in God! Have faith also in me! 2In my Father’s house are many mansions.1212 If it were not so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. 3If I go and prepare a place for you, I will return and receive you to myself, so that where I am, you may be there also. 4You know where I am going, and you know the way.”
5Thomas asked him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going! And how can we know the way?”
6Jesus replied to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. 7If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. And from now on, you know him, and you have seen him.”
8Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us!”
9Jesus answered, “I have been with you for such a long time, and still, do you not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father! So how can you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ 10Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words that I tell you, I do not speak from myself, but the Father who lives in me accomplishes the works. 11Believe me that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me; or else believe me on account of the works themselves. 12Amen, amen, I tell you; whoever believes in me will also accomplish the works that I accomplish and will do [even] greater works than these, because I am going to my Father. 13Whatever you will ask in my Name is what I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14If you will ask anything in my Name, I will accomplish it.1213 15If you love me, keep my commandments!1214
The Counselor (Paraclete)—Peace
16I will pray to the Father and he will give you another Counselor1215 to be with you forever,17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive him because it does not see him and does not know him. But you know him, because he lives with you and will be in you. 18I will not leave you orphans! I will come to you! 19In a short time, the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live! 20In that day, you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, that person is the one who loves me. Whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love and reveal myself to such a person.”
22Judas (not Iscariot) asked him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”
23Jesus answered him, “The one who loves me will keep my word; my Father will love him and we shall come to him and make a home1216 in him. 24Whoever does not love me does not keep1217 my words. The word which you hear is not mine, but it belongs to the Father who sent me. 25I have said these things to you while still living with you. 26But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit which the Father will send in my Name, will teach you all things and remind you of all that I said to you.
27Peace I leave with you! My peace I give to you! I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your heart be troubled and do not let it be afraid. 28You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I [shall] return to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for my Father is greater than I.1218 29Now I have told you before it happens so that when it happens, you may believe. 30I will not speak with you much longer because the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in me. 31But so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father has commanded me. Arise, let us be on our way!”
The vine and the branches
- Or “rooms/homes/dwelling places”
- Several ancient authorities (P66, א, B, W, ∆, Θ) read: “whatever you ask me in my Name”
- Compare Wisdom 6:18
- Greek parakalw/n (parakleton): Comforter (KJV), Counselor (NIV, RSV), Helper, Intercessor, Advocate (NRS, NAB)
- Or “our home”
- Or “obey”
- See Appendix D on the Filioque for the patristic understanding of this statement
Text: The Eastern / Greek Orthodox Bible, New Testament (EOB). Used with permission.
