Jesus Comforts His Disciples
14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God [Or Believe in God ]; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”
Jesus the Way to the Father
5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know [Some manuscripts If you really knew me, you would know ] my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
9 Jesus 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. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe 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. 12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You 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. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be [Some early manuscripts and is] in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
22 Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”
23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 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.
25 “All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
28 “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I 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. 29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. 30 I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me, 31 but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me.
“Come now; let us leave.
14:1–31 Jesus’ departure and return. This section is a
dialogue marked off by a literary inclusion in Jn 14:1, 27: “Do not let your
hearts be troubled.”
14:1 You have faith: could also be imperative: “Have faith.”
14:3 Come back again: a rare Johannine reference to the
parousia; cf. 1 Jn 2:28.
14:4 The way: here, of Jesus himself; also a designation of
Christianity in Acts 9:2; 19:9, 23; 22:4; 24:14, 22.
14:6 The truth: in John, the divinely revealed reality of
the Father manifested in the person and works of Jesus. The possession of truth
confers knowledge and liberation from sin (Jn 8:32).
14:7 An alternative reading, “If you knew me, then you would
have known my Father also,” would be a rebuke, as in Jn 8:19.
14:8 Show us the Father: Philip is pictured asking for a
theophany like Ex 24:9–10; 33:18.
14:16 Another Advocate: Jesus is the first advocate
(paraclete); see 1 Jn 2:1, where Jesus is an advocate in the sense of
intercessor in heaven. The Greek term derives from legal terminology for an
advocate or defense attorney, and can mean spokesman, mediator, intercessor, comforter,
consoler, although no one of these terms encompasses the meaning in John. The
Paraclete in John is a teacher, a witness to Jesus, and a prosecutor of the
world, who represents the continued presence on earth of the Jesus who has
returned to the Father.
14:17 The Spirit of truth: this term is also used at Qumran,
where it is a moral force put into a person by God, as opposed to the spirit of
perversity. It is more personal in John; it will teach the realities of the new
order (Jn 14:26), and testify to the truth (Jn 14:6). While it has been
customary to use masculine personal pronouns in English for the Advocate, the
Greek word for “spirit” is neuter, and the Greek text and manuscript variants
fluctuate between masculine and neuter pronouns.
14:18 I will come to you: indwelling, not parousia.
14:22 Judas, not the Iscariot: probably not the brother of
Jesus in Mk 6:3 // Mt 13:55 or the apostle named Jude in Lk 6:16, but Thomas
(see note on Jn 11:16), although other readings have “Judas the Cananean.”
14:27 Peace: the traditional Hebrew salutation šālôm; but
Jesus’ “Shalom” is a gift of salvation, connoting the bounty of messianic
blessing.
14:28 The Father is greater than I: because he sent, gave,
etc., and Jesus is “a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God” (Jn
8:40).
14:30 The ruler of the world: Satan; cf. Jn 12:31; 16:11.
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