Christ comforts and encourages His disciples
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📚✭“Do not let your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. 2 📚✭“In my Father’s house are many dwellings. If this were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 📚✭And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself, that where I am, there you may be also. 4 📚✭And you know where I am going, and you know the way”.
Christ the one way to God
5 📚✭Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going, and how can we know the way?”
6 📚✭Jesus said to him, “I am the way,✭ the truth,✭ and the life✭; no one comes to the Father except through me. 7 📚✭If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. And from now on you know him, and have seen him”.
8 📚✭Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it will be sufficient for us”.
9 📚Jesus said to him, “Have I been such a long time with you, and you have not yet known me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father.✭ Then how can you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ 10 📚✭Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own, but the Father who lives in me is doing these things. 11 📚✭Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me; or else believe me because of the deeds themselves.
12 📚✭“Truly, truly I say to you, he who believes in me, he also will do the deeds that I am doing; and he will do greater deeds than these, because I am going to my Father. 13 📚✭And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father will be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in my name, I will do it.
Christ promises God’s Holy Spirit to disciples
15 📚✭If you love me, keep my commandments.
16 📚✭“And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Comforter,✭ that he may stay with you forever. 17 📚✭He is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see him, and does not know him. But you know him, for he dwells with you, and will be in you. 18 📚✭I will not leave you without comfort. I will come to you. 19 📚✭After a little while, the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.✭ 20 📚On that day✭ you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
21 📚✭“He who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him”.
22 📚✭Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”
23 📚✭Jesus answered and said to him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my words; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. 24 📚✭He who does not love me will not keep my teachings. And the word that you are hearing is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me. 25 📚These things I have spoken to you, being still present with you. 26 📚✭But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will cause you to remember everything I have said to you.
27 📚✭“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your heart be troubled, do not let it be afraid. 28 📚✭You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and will come again to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice, because I said, ‘I go to the Father.’ For my Father is greater than I. 29 📚And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it takes place, you might believe. 30 📚I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler✭ of this world is coming, and he has nothing in me. 31 📚✭But that the world may know that I love the Father, I do just as the Father commanded me. Arise, let us leave here.