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I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life

^1 (a)"Let not your hearts be troubled. ^(b)Believe in God;^[a] believe also in me. ² In ^(c)my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that ^(d)I go to prepare a place for you?^{[b] 3} And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you ^(e)to myself, that ^(f)where I am you may be also. ⁴ And you know the way to where I am going."^{[c] 5 (g)}Thomas said to him, "Lord, ^(h)we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?" ⁶ Jesus said to him, "I am ⁽ⁱ⁾the way, and ^(j)the truth, and ^(k)the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ^7 (l)If you had known me, you would have ^(m)known my Father also.^[d] From now on you do know him and ⁽ⁿ⁾have seen him."

^8 (o)Philip said to him, "Lord, ^(p)show us the Father, and it is enough for us." ⁹ Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? ^(q)Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father'? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that ^(r)I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you ^(s)I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. ¹¹ Believe me that ^(t)I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else ^(u)believe on account of the works themselves.

¹² "Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(v)whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I ^(w)am going to the Father. ^13 (x)Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that ^(y)the Father may be glorified in the Son. ^14 (z)If you ask me^[e] anything in my name, I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

^15 (aa)"If you love me, you will ^(ab)keep my commandments. ¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another ^(ac)Helper,^[f] to be with you forever, ¹⁷ even ^(ad)the Spirit of truth, ^(ae)whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and ^(af)will be^[g] in you.

¹⁸ "I will not leave you as orphans; ^(ag)I will come to you. ^19 (ah)Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but ^(ai)you will see me. ^(aj)Because I live, you also will live. ^20 (ak)In that day you will know that ^(al)I am in my Father, and ^(am)you in me, and ^(an)I in you. ^21 (ao)Whoever has my commandments and ^(ap)keeps them, he it is who loves me. And ^(aq)he who loves me ^(ar)will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and ^(as)manifest myself to him." ^22 (at)Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, how is it ^(au)that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?" ²³ Jesus answered him, ^(av)"If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and ^(aw)we will come to him and ^(ax)make our home with him. ²⁴ Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And ^(ay)the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

²⁵ "These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. ²⁶ But the ^(az)Helper, the Holy Spirit, ^(ba)whom the Father will send in my name, ^(bb)he will teach you all things and ^(bc)bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. ^27 (bd)Peace I leave with you; ^(be)my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. ^(bf)Let not your hearts be troubled, neither ^(bg)let them be afraid. ^28 (bh)You heard me say to you, ^(bi)‘I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I ^(bj)am going to the Father, for ^(bk)the Father is greater than I. ²⁹ And ^(bl)now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe. ³⁰ I will no longer talk much with you, for ^(bm)the ruler of this world is coming. ^(bn)He has no claim on me, ³¹ but I do ^(bo)as the Father has commanded me, ^(bp)so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.