John 14 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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

Jhn 14:1“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God;[fn] believe also in me.

Jhn 14:2In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?[fn]

Jhn 14:3

Jhn 14:3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

Jhn 14:4

Jhn 14:4And you know the way to where I am going.”[fn]

Jhn 14:5

Jhn 14:5Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”

Jhn 14:6

Jhn 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Jhn 14:7

Jhn 14:7If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.[fn] From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

Jhn 14:8

Jhn 14:8Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”

Jhn 14:9

Jhn 14:9Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

Jhn 14:10

Jhn 14:10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.

Jhn 14:11

Jhn 14:11Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.

Jhn 14:12

Jhn 14:12“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.

Jhn 14:13

Jhn 14:13Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Jhn 14:14

Jhn 14:14If you ask me[fn] anything in my name, I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

Jhn 14:15

Jhn 14:15“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Jhn 14:16

Jhn 14:16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper,[fn] to be with you forever,

Jhn 14:17

Jhn 14:17even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be[fn] in you.

Jhn 14:18

Jhn 14:18“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

Jhn 14:19

Jhn 14:19Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.

Jhn 14:20

Jhn 14:20In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

Jhn 14:21

Jhn 14:21Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

Jhn 14:22

Jhn 14:22Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?”

Jhn 14:23

Jhn 14:23Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

Jhn 14:24

Jhn 14:24Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.

Jhn 14:25

Jhn 14:25“These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you.

Jhn 14:26

Jhn 14:26But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

Jhn 14:27

Jhn 14:27Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Jhn 14:28

Jhn 14:28You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

Jhn 14:29

Jhn 14:29And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe.

Jhn 14:30

Jhn 14:30I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me,

Jhn 14:31

Jhn 14:31but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

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ESV Footnotes

(14:1)

Or You believe in God

(14:2)

Or In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you

(14:4)

Some manuscripts Where I am going you know, and the way you know

(14:7)

Or If you know me, you will know my Father also, or If you have known me, you will know my Father also

(14:14)

Some manuscripts omit me

(14:16)

Or Advocate, or Counselor; also 14:26; 15:26; 16:7

(14:17)

Some manuscripts and is

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