John 14:1-16:15

New American Standard Bible 1995

Jesus Comforts His Disciples

14 “^(A)Do not let your heart be troubled; ^[a]believe in God, believe also in Me. ² In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for ^(B)I go to prepare a place for you. ³ If I go and prepare a place for you, ^(C)I will come again and receive you to Myself, that ^(D)where I am, there you may be also. ⁴ And you know the way where I am going.” ^5 (E)Thomas *said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?” ⁶ Jesus *said to him, “I am ^(F)the way, and ^(G)the truth, and ^(H)the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

Oneness with the Father

^7 (I)If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you ^(J)know Him, and have ^(K)seen Him.”

^8 (L)Philip *said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” ⁹ Jesus *said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? ^(M)He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that ^(N)I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? ^(O)The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works. ¹¹ Believe Me that ^(P)I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise ^(Q)believe because of the works themselves. ¹² Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and ^(R)greater works than these he will do; because ^(S)I go to the Father. ^13 (T)Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that ^(U)the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ If you ask Me anything ^(V)in My name, I will do it.

¹⁵ “^(W)If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Role of the Spirit

¹⁶ I will ask the Father, and He will give you another ^[b](X)Helper, that He may be with you forever; ¹⁷ that is ^(Y)the Spirit of truth, ^(Z)whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.

¹⁸ “I will not leave you as orphans; ^(AA)I will come to you. ^19 [c](AB)After a little while ^(AC)the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; ^(AD)because I live, you will live also. ^20 (AE)In that day you will know that ^(AF)I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. ^21 (AG)He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and ^(AH)he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will ^(AI)disclose Myself to him.” ^22 (AJ)Judas (not Iscariot) *said to Him, “Lord, what then has happened ^(AK)that You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world?” ²³ Jesus answered and said to him, “^(AL)If anyone loves Me, he will ^(AM)keep My word; and ^(AN)My Father will love him, and We ^(AO)will come to him and make Our abode with him. ²⁴ He who does not love Me ^(AP)does not keep My words; and ^(AQ)the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.

²⁵ “These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you. ²⁶ But the ^(AR)Helper, the Holy Spirit, ^(AS)whom the Father will send in My name, ^(AT)He will teach you all things, and ^(AU)bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. ^27 (AV)Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. ^(AW)Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. ^28 (AX)You heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and ^(AY)I will come to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because ^(AZ)I go to the Father, for ^(BA)the Father is greater than I. ²⁹ Now ^(BB)I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe. ³⁰ I will not speak much more with you, for ^(BC)the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me; ³¹ but so that the world may know that I love the Father, ^[d]I do exactly as ^(BD)the Father commanded Me. Get up, ^(BE)let us go from here.

Jesus Is the Vine—Followers Are Branches

15 “^(BF)I am the true vine, and My Father is the ^(BG)vinedresser. ² Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He ^[e]prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. ^3 (BH)You are already ^[f]clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. ^4 (BI)Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit ^[g]of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he ^(BJ)bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in Me, he is ^(BK)thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. ⁷ If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ^(BL)ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. ⁸ My ^(BM)Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so ^[h](BN)prove to be My disciples. ⁹ Just as ^(BO)the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. ^10 (BP)If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as ^(BQ)I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. ^11 (BR)These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your ^(BS)joy may be made full.

Disciples’ Relation to Each Other

¹² “This is ^(BT)My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. ^13 (BU)Greater love has no one than this, that one ^(BV)lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are My ^(BW)friends if ^(BX)you do what I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ^(BY)all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. ^16 (BZ)You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and ^(CA)bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that ^(CB)whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. ¹⁷ This ^(CC)I command you, that you love one another.

Disciples’ Relation to the World

¹⁸ “^(CD)If the world hates you, ^[i]you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but ^(CE)I chose you out of the world, ^(CF)because of this the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, ‘^(CG)A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, ^(CH)they will also persecute you; if they ^(CI)kept My word, they will keep yours also. ²¹ But all these things they will do to you ^(CJ)for My name’s sake, ^(CK)because they do not know the One who sent Me. ^22 (CL)If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have ^[j]sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ He who hates Me hates My Father also. ^24 (CM)If I had not done among them ^(CN)the works which no one else did, they would not have ^[k]sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. ²⁵ But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their ^(CO)Law, ‘^(CP)They hated Me without a cause.’

²⁶ “When the ^[l](CQ)Helper comes, ^(CR)whom I will send to you from the Father, that is ^(CS)the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, ^(CT)He will testify about Me, ^27 [m]and ^(CU)you will testify also, because you have been with Me ^(CV)from the beginning.

Jesus’ Warning

16 “^(CW)These things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept from ^(CX)stumbling. ^2 [n]They will ^(CY)make you outcasts from the synagogue, but ^(CZ)an hour is coming for everyone ^(DA)who kills you to think that he is offering service to God. ³ These things they will do ^(DB)because they have not known the Father or Me. ⁴ But these things I have spoken to you, ^(DC)so that when their hour comes, you ^[o]may remember that I told you of them. These things I did not say to you ^(DD)at the beginning, because I was with you.

The Holy Spirit Promised

⁵ “But now ^(DE)I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, ‘^(DF)Where are You going?’ ⁶ But because I have said these things to you, ^(DG)sorrow has filled your heart. ⁷ But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the ^[p](DH)Helper will not come to you; but if I go, ^(DI)I will send Him to you. ⁸ And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; ⁹ concerning sin, ^(DJ)because they do not believe in Me; ¹⁰ and concerning ^(DK)righteousness, because ^(DL)I go to the Father and you no longer see Me; ^11 (DM)and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

¹² “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. ¹³ But when He, ^(DN)the Spirit of truth, comes, He will ^(DO)guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. ¹⁴ He will ^(DP)glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you. ^15 (DQ)All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.