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“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in
God; trust also in me.
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In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were
not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.
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And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will
come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
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You know the way to the place where I am going.” |
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Thomas said to him,
“Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
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Jesus answered,
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No
one comes to the Father except through me.
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If you really knew me, you would know my Father
as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
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Philip said, “Lord,
show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
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Jesus answered:
“Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have
been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the
Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
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Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and
that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own.
Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
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Believe me when I say that I am in the Father
and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles
themselves.
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I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me
will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these,
because I am going to the Father.
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And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so
that the Son may bring glory to the Father.
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You may ask me for anything in my name, and I
will do it. |
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“If you love me, you will obey what I command. |
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And I will ask the Father, and he will give you
another Counselor to be with you forever—
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the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept
him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he
lives with you and will be in you.
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I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to
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Before long, the world will not see me anymore,
but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
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On that day you will realize that I am in my
Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
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Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is
the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too
will love him and show myself to him.”
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Then Judas (not
Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us
and not to the world?”
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Jesus replied,
“If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching.
My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with
him.
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He who does not love me will not obey my
teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father
who sent me.
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“All this I have spoken while still with you. |
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But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the
Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you
of everything I have said to you.
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Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I
do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled
and do not be afraid.
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“You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am
coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to
the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
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I have told you now before it happens, so that
when it does happen you will believe.
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I will not speak with you much longer, for the
prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me,
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but the world must learn that I love the Father
and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me. Come now; let us
leave.
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