Bible Gateway passage: John 14 - New International Version (2024)

Jesus Comforts His Disciples

14“Do not let your hearts be troubled.^(A) You believe^(B) in God^[a];^(C) believe also in me. ²My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there^(D) to prepare a place for you? ³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back^(E) and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.^{(F) 4}You know the way to the place where I am going.”

Jesus the Way to the Father

⁵Thomas^(G) said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

⁶Jesus answered, “I am^(H) the way^(I) and the truth^(J) and the life.^(K) No one comes to the Father except through me.^{(L) 7}If you really know me, you will know^[b] my Father as well.^(M) From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

⁸Philip^(N) said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”

⁹Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.^(O) How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me?^(P) The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority.^(Q) Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. ¹¹Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.^{(R) 12}Very truly I tell you, whoever believes^(S) in me will do the works I have been doing,^(T) and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. ¹³And I will do whatever you ask^(U) in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

¹⁵“If you love me, keep my commands.^{(V) 16}And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate^(W) to help you and be with you forever— ¹⁷the Spirit of truth.^(X) The world cannot accept him,^(Y) because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be^[c] in you. ¹⁸I will not leave you as orphans;^(Z) I will come to you.^{(AA) 19}Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me.^(AB) Because I live, you also will live.^{(AC) 20}On that day^(AD) you will realize that I am in my Father,^(AE) and you are in me, and I am in you.^{(AF) 21}Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.^(AG) The one who loves me will be loved by my Father,^(AH) and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

²²Then Judas^(AI) (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”^(AJ)

²³Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching.^(AK) My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.^{(AL) 24}Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.^(AM)

²⁵“All this I have spoken while still with you. ²⁶But the Advocate,^(AN) the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,^(AO) will teach you all things^(AP) and will remind you of everything I have said to you.^{(AQ) 27}Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.^(AR) I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled^(AS) and do not be afraid.

²⁸“You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’^(AT) If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father,^(AU) for the Father is greater than I.^{(AV) 29}I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.^{(AW) 30}I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world^(AX) is coming. He has no hold over me, ³¹but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me.^(AY)

“Come now; let us leave.

Footnotes

1. John 14:1 Or Believe in God
2. John 14:7 Some manuscripts If you really knew me, you would know
3. John 14:17 Some early manuscripts and is

Cross references

1. John 14:1 : ver 27
2. John 14:1 : S Jn 3:15
3. John 14:1 : Ps 4:5
4. John 14:2 : Jn 13:33, 36; 16:5
5. John 14:3 : ver 18, 28; S Mt 16:27
6. John 14:3 : S Jn 12:26
7. John 14:5 : S Jn 11:16
8. John 14:6 : S Jn 6:35
9. John 14:6 : Jn 10:9; Eph 2:18; Heb 10:20
10. John 14:6 : Jn 1:14
11. John 14:6 : S Jn 1:4
12. John 14:6 : Ac 4:12
13. John 14:7 : Jn 1:18; S 1Jn 2:23
14. John 14:8 : S Jn 1:43
15. John 14:9 : Isa 9:6; Jn 1:14; 12:45; 2Co 4:4; Php 2:6; Col 1:15; Heb 1:3
16. John 14:10 : ver 11, 20; Jn 10:38; 17:21
17. John 14:10 : S ver 24
18. John 14:11 : Jn 5:36; 10:38
19. John 14:12 : Mt 21:21
20. John 14:12 : Lk 10:17
21. John 14:13 : S Mt 7:7
22. John 14:15 : ver 21, 23; Ps 103:18; Jn 15:10; 1Jn 2:3-5; 3:22, 24; 5:3; 2Jn 6; Rev 12:17; 14:12
23. John 14:16 : ver 26; Jn 15:26; 16:7
24. John 14:17 : Jn 15:26; 16:13; 1Jn 4:6; 5:6
25. John 14:17 : 1Co 2:14
26. John 14:18 : 1Ki 6:13
27. John 14:18 : ver 3, 28; S Mt 16:27
28. John 14:19 : Jn 7:33, 34; 16:16
29. John 14:19 : Jn 6:57
30. John 14:20 : Jn 16:23, 26
31. John 14:20 : ver 10, 11; Jn 10:38; 17:21
32. John 14:20 : S Ro 8:10
33. John 14:21 : S ver 15
34. John 14:21 : Dt 7:13; Jn 16:27; 1Jn 2:5
35. John 14:22 : Lk 6:16; Ac 1:13
36. John 14:22 : Ac 10:41
37. John 14:23 : S ver 15
38. John 14:23 : S Ro 8:10
39. John 14:24 : ver 10; Dt 18:18; Jn 5:19; 7:16; 8:28; 12:49, 50
40. John 14:26 : ver 16; Jn 15:26; 16:7
41. John 14:26 : Ac 2:33
42. John 14:26 : Jn 16:13; 1Jn 2:20, 27
43. John 14:26 : Jn 2:22
44. John 14:27 : Nu 6:26; Ps 85:8; Mal 2:6; S Lk 2:14; 24:36; Jn 16:33; Php 4:7; Col 3:15
45. John 14:27 : ver 1
46. John 14:28 : ver 2-4, 18; S Mt 16:27
47. John 14:28 : Jn 5:18
48. John 14:28 : Jn 10:29
49. John 14:29 : Jn 13:19; 16:4
50. John 14:30 : S Jn 12:31
51. John 14:31 : Jn 10:18; 12:49