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    John 14

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    Jesus has just said that the disciples know and have seen the Father when Philip asks, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” It is a wonderfully abrupt request: the answer has apparently gone past him, and Jesus gently points out that it has been standing beside him all along.

    The way, and the one already seenvv. 1–14

    Jesus begins with troubled hearts and a house containing many rooms, promising to prepare a place and return. Thomas, with admirable precision, objects that nobody knows where Jesus is going, and therefore nobody can know the way. Jesus answers not with a map but with himself: “I am the way and the truth and the life.” Then Philip asks to be shown the Father, despite Jesus having just said that the disciples know and have seen Him. Jesus replies that seeing him is seeing the Father, and points to the Father dwelling in him and performing the works. The promises then grow splendidly large: believers will do the works Jesus does, and even greater things, while requests made in his name will be answered.

    Another Advocate, and one awkward questionvv. 15–24

    Love is described here in the practical shape of keeping Jesus’ commandments. In answer, Jesus says he will ask the Father for another Advocate, the Spirit of truth, who will remain with the disciples and be in them. The world will not see or know Him; the disciples will. Jesus will not leave them as orphans, and the Father and the Son will come and make their home with anyone who loves Jesus and keeps his word. At this point Judas—not Iscariot, a clarification of almost comic plainness in the middle of a farewell—asks why this revealing is reserved for them rather than the world. Jesus answers by returning to love, obedience, and the word from the Father.

    Peace before departurevv. 25–31

    Jesus says that the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, will teach and remind the disciples of everything he has said. He leaves peace, though not the sort the world gives, and repeats that troubled hearts need not be afraid. His going away is also his coming back, and his going to the Father is presented as cause for rejoicing. He has spoken beforehand so that belief may follow when events arrive. The prince of this world is coming, but has no claim on Jesus. Then, with the farewell still in the air, Jesus gives the most practical instruction in the passage: “Get up! Let us go on from here.”

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    1. John 14:1“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well.

    2. John 14:2In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?

    3. John 14:3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am.

    4. John 14:4You know the way to the place where I am going.”

    5. John 14:5“Lord,” said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?”

    6. John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

    7. John 14:7If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”

    8. John 14:8Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”

    9. John 14:9Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

    10. John 14:10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works.

    11. John 14:11Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me—or at least believe on account of the works themselves.

    12. John 14:12Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

    13. John 14:13And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

    14. John 14:14If you ask Me for anything in My name, I will do it.

    15. John 14:15If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

    16. John 14:16And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—

    17. John 14:17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.

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

    19. John 14:19In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live.

    20. John 14:20On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.

    21. John 14:21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

    22. John 14:22Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”

    23. John 14:23Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

    24. John 14:24Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.

    25. John 14:25All this I have spoken to you while I am still with you.

    26. John 14:26But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.

    27. John 14:27Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid.

    28. John 14:28You heard Me say, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

    29. John 14:29And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it does happen, you will believe.

    30. John 14:30I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me.

    31. John 14:31But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.’’

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    • 151 John 2:3–5By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.
    • 6Acts 4:12Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
    • 6John 10:9I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.
    • 151 John 5:2–3By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.
    • 15John 14:21–24Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
    • 6Ephesians 2:18For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
    • 152 John 1:6And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.
    • 15John 15:10–14If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
    • 6John 1:4In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
    • 61 John 5:20And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
    • 27Philippians 4:7And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
    • 27John 16:33I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
    • 61 John 5:11–12And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
    • 1Isaiah 26:3You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.
    • 6Isaiah 35:8–9And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it—only those who walk in the Way—and fools will not stray onto it.
    • 152 Corinthians 5:14–15For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.

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