< John 14 >
1 Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe on God, believe also on me.
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
2 In my Father's house there are many abodes; were it not so, I had told you: for I go to prepare you a place;
In my Father’s home there are many dwellings. If it had not been so, I should have told you, for I am going to prepare a place for you.
3 and if I go and shall prepare you a place, I am coming again and shall receive you to myself, that where I am ye also may be.
And, since I go and prepare a place for you, I will return and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am;
4 And ye know where I go, and ye know the way.
and you know the way to the place where I am going.’
5 Thomas says to him, Lord, we know not where thou goest, and how can we know the way?
‘We do not know where you are going, Master,’ said Thomas. ‘So how can we know the way?’
6 Jesus says to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father unless by me.
Jesus answered, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one ever comes to the Father except through me.
7 If ye had known me, ye would have known also my Father, and henceforth ye know him and have seen him.
If you had recognised me, you would have known my Father also; for the future you will recognise him, indeed you have already seen him.’
8 Philip says to him, Lord, shew us the Father and it suffices us.
‘Master, show us the Father,’ said Philip, ‘and we will be satisfied.’
9 Jesus says to him, Am I so long a time with you, and thou hast not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how sayest thou, Shew us the Father?
‘Have I been all this time among you,’ said Jesus, ‘and yet you, Philip, have not recognised me? The person who has seen me has seen the Father, how can you say, then, “Show us the Father”?
10 Believest thou not that I [am] in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words which I speak to you I do not speak from myself; but the Father who abides in me, he does the works.
Don’t you believe that I am in union with the Father, and the Father with me? In giving you my teaching I am not speaking on my own authority; but the Father himself, always in union with me, does his own work.
11 Believe me that I [am] in the Father and the Father in me; but if not, believe me for the works' sake themselves.
Believe me,’ he said to them all, ‘when I say that I am in union with the Father and the Father with me, or else believe me because of the work itself.
12 Verily, verily, I say to you, He that believes on me, the works which I do shall he do also, and he shall do greater than these, because I go to the Father.
In truth I tell you, the person who believes in me will themselves do the work that I am doing; and they will do greater work still, because I am going to the Father.
13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, this will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Whatever you ask, in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be honoured in the Son.
14 If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it.
If you ask anything, in my name, I will do it.
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
If you love me, you will lay my commands to heart,
16 And I will beg the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever, (aiōn )
and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another helper, to be with you always – the Spirit of truth. (aiōn )
17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see him nor know him; but ye know him, for he abides with you, and shall be in you.
The world cannot receive this Spirit, because it does not see him or recognise him, but you recognise him, because he is always with you, and is within you.
18 I will not leave you orphans, I am coming to you.
I will not leave you bereaved; I will come to you.
19 Yet a little and the world sees me no longer; but ye see me; because I live ye also shall live.
In a little while the world will see me no more, but you will still see me; because I am living, you will be living also.
20 In that day ye shall know that I [am] in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
At that time you will recognise that I am in union with the Father, and you with me, and I with you.
21 He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me; but he that loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.
It is they who have my commands and lays them to heart who loves me; and the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them, and will reveal myself to them.’
22 Judas, not the Iscariote, says to him, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself to us and not to the world?
‘What has happened, Master,’ said Judas (not Judas Iscariot), ‘that you are going to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?’
23 Jesus answered and said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him.
‘Whoever loves me,’ Jesus answered, ‘will lay my message to heart; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
24 He that loves me not does not keep my words; and the word which ye hear is not mine, but [that] of the Father who has sent me.
The person who does not love me will not lay my message to heart; and the message to which you are listening is not my own, but comes from the Father who sent me.
25 These things I have said to you, abiding with you;
I have told you all this while still with you,
26 but the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and will bring to your remembrance all the things which I have said to you.
but the helper – the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name – will teach you all things, and will recall to your minds all that I have said to you.
27 I leave peace with you; I give my peace to you: not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it fear.
Peace be with you! My own peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, or dismayed.
28 Ye have heard that I have said unto you, I go away and I am coming to you. If ye loved me ye would rejoice that I go to the Father, for [my] Father is greater than I.
You heard me say that I was going away and would return to you. Had you loved me, you would have been glad that I was going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.
29 And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that when it shall have come to pass ye may believe.
And this I have told you now before it happens, so that, when it does happen, you may still believe in me.
30 I will no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the world comes, and in me he has nothing;
I will not talk with you much more, for the Spirit that is ruling the world is coming. He has nothing in common with me;
31 but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father has commanded me, thus I do. Rise up, let us go hence.
but he is coming so that the world may see that I love the Father, and that I do as the Father commanded me. Come, let us be going.