14:1 “Do not let your hearts be distressed. ¹  You believe in God; ²  believe also in me. 14:2 There are many dwelling places ³  in my Father’s house. ⁴  Otherwise, I would have told you, because ⁵  I am going away to make ready ⁶  a place for you. ⁷  14:3 And if I go and make ready ⁸  a place for you, I will come again and take you ⁹  to be with me, ¹⁰  so that where I am you may be too. 14:4 And you know the way where I am going.” ¹¹ 

14:5 Thomas said, ¹²  “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 14:6 Jesus replied, ¹³  “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. ¹⁴  No one comes to the Father except through me. 14:7 If you have known me, you will know my Father too. ¹⁵  And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”

14:8 Philip said, ¹⁶  “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be content.” ¹⁷  14:9 Jesus replied, ¹⁸  “Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known ¹⁹  me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? ²⁰  The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, ²¹  but the Father residing in me performs ²²  his miraculous deeds. ²³  14:11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, ²⁴  believe because of the miraculous deeds ²⁵  themselves. 14:12 I tell you the solemn truth, ²⁶  the person who believes in me will perform ²⁷  the miraculous deeds ²⁸  that I am doing, ²⁹  and will perform ³⁰  greater deeds ³¹  than these, because I am going to the Father. 14:13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, ³²  so that the Father may be glorified ³³  in the Son. 14:14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

14:15 “If you love me, you will obey ³⁴  my commandments. ³⁵  14:16 Then ³⁶  I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate ³⁷  to be with you forever – 14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, ³⁸  because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides ³⁹  with you and will be ⁴⁰  in you.

14:18 “I will not abandon ⁴¹  you as orphans, ⁴²  I will come to you. ⁴³  14:19 In a little while ⁴⁴  the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too. 14:20 You will know at that time ⁴⁵  that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you. 14:21 The person who has my commandments and obeys ⁴⁶  them is the one who loves me. ⁴⁷  The one ⁴⁸  who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal ⁴⁹  myself to him.”

14:22 “Lord,” Judas (not Judas Iscariot) ⁵⁰  said, ⁵¹  “what has happened that you are going to reveal ⁵²  yourself to us and not to the world?” 14:23 Jesus replied, ⁵³  “If anyone loves me, he will obey ⁵⁴  my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him. ⁵⁵  14:24 The person who does not love me does not obey ⁵⁶  my words. And the word ⁵⁷  you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

14:25 “I have spoken these things while staying ⁵⁸  with you. 14:26 But the Advocate, ⁵⁹  the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you ⁶⁰  everything, ⁶¹  and will cause you to remember everything ⁶²  I said to you.

14:27 “Peace I leave with you; ⁶³  my peace I give to you; I do not give it ⁶⁴  to you as the world does. ⁶⁵  Do not let your hearts be distressed or lacking in courage. ⁶⁶  14:28 You heard me say to you, ⁶⁷  ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad ⁶⁸  that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am. ⁶⁹  14:29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe. ⁷⁰  14:30 I will not speak with you much longer, ⁷¹  for the ruler of this world is coming. ⁷²  He has no power over me, ⁷³  14:31 but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know ⁷⁴  that I love the Father. ⁷⁵  Get up, let us go from here.” ⁷⁶ 

15:1 “I am the true vine ⁷⁷  and my Father is the gardener. ⁷⁸  15:2 He takes away ⁷⁹  every branch that does not bear ⁸⁰  fruit in me. He ⁸¹  prunes ⁸²  every branch that bears ⁸³  fruit so that it will bear more fruit. 15:3 You are clean already ⁸⁴  because of the word that I have spoken to you. 15:4 Remain ⁸⁵  in me, and I will remain in you. ⁸⁶  Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, ⁸⁷  unless it remains ⁸⁸  in ⁸⁹  the vine, so neither can you unless you remain ⁹⁰  in me.

15:5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains ⁹¹  in me – and I in him – bears ⁹²  much fruit, ⁹³  because apart from me you can accomplish ⁹⁴  nothing. 15:6 If anyone does not remain ⁹⁵  in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, ⁹⁶  and are burned up. ⁹⁷  15:7 If you remain ⁹⁸  in me and my words remain ⁹⁹  in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you. ¹⁰⁰  15:8 My Father is honored ¹⁰¹  by this, that ¹⁰²  you bear ¹⁰³  much fruit and show that you are ¹⁰⁴  my disciples.

15:9 “Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain ¹⁰⁵  in my love. 15:10 If you obey ¹⁰⁶  my commandments, you will remain ¹⁰⁷  in my love, just as I have obeyed ¹⁰⁸  my Father’s commandments and remain ¹⁰⁹  in his love. 15:11 I have told you these things ¹¹⁰  so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete. 15:12 My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you. ¹¹¹  15:13 No one has greater love than this – that one lays down his life ¹¹²  for his friends. 15:14 You are my friends ¹¹³  if you do what I command you. 15:15 I no longer call you slaves, ¹¹⁴  because the slave does not understand ¹¹⁵  what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything ¹¹⁶  I heard ¹¹⁷  from my Father. 15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you ¹¹⁸  and appointed you to go and bear ¹¹⁹  fruit, fruit that remains, ¹²⁰  so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. 15:17 This ¹²¹  I command you – to love one another.

15:18 “If the world hates you, be aware ¹²²  that it hated me first. ¹²³  15:19 If you belonged to the world, ¹²⁴  the world would love you as its own. ¹²⁵  However, because you do not belong to the world, ¹²⁶  but I chose you out of the world, for this reason ¹²⁷  the world hates you. ¹²⁸  15:20 Remember what ¹²⁹  I told you, ‘A slave ¹³⁰  is not greater than his master.’ ¹³¹  If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed ¹³²  my word, they will obey ¹³³  yours too. 15:21 But they will do all these things to you on account of ¹³⁴  my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. ¹³⁵  15:22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. ¹³⁶  But they no longer have any excuse for their sin. 15:23 The one who hates me hates my Father too. 15:24 If I had not performed ¹³⁷  among them the miraculous deeds ¹³⁸  that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. ¹³⁹  But now they have seen the deeds ¹⁴⁰  and have hated both me and my Father. ¹⁴¹  15:25 Now this happened ¹⁴²  to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’ ¹⁴³  15:26 When the Advocate ¹⁴⁴  comes, whom I will send you from the Father – the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father – he ¹⁴⁵  will testify about me, 15:27 and you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

16:1 “I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away. ¹⁴⁶  16:2 They will put you out of ¹⁴⁷  the synagogue, ¹⁴⁸  yet a time ¹⁴⁹  is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God. ¹⁵⁰  16:3 They ¹⁵¹  will do these things because they have not known the Father or me. ¹⁵²  16:4 But I have told you these things ¹⁵³  so that when their time ¹⁵⁴  comes, you will remember that I told you about them. ¹⁵⁵ 

“I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you. ¹⁵⁶  16:5 But now I am going to the one who sent me, ¹⁵⁷  and not one of you is asking me, ‘Where are you going?’ ¹⁵⁸  16:6 Instead your hearts are filled with sadness ¹⁵⁹  because I have said these things to you. 16:7 But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate ¹⁶⁰  will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you. 16:8 And when he ¹⁶¹  comes, he will prove the world wrong ¹⁶²  concerning sin and ¹⁶³  righteousness and ¹⁶⁴  judgment – 16:9 concerning sin, because ¹⁶⁵  they do not believe in me; ¹⁶⁶  16:10 concerning righteousness, ¹⁶⁷  because ¹⁶⁸  I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer; 16:11 and concerning judgment, ¹⁶⁹  because ¹⁷⁰  the ruler of this world ¹⁷¹  has been condemned. ¹⁷² 

16:12 “I have many more things to say to you, ¹⁷³  but you cannot bear ¹⁷⁴  them now. 16:13 But when he, ¹⁷⁵  the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide ¹⁷⁶  you into all truth. ¹⁷⁷  For he will not speak on his own authority, ¹⁷⁸  but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you ¹⁷⁹  what is to come. ¹⁸⁰  16:14 He ¹⁸¹  will glorify me, ¹⁸²  because he will receive ¹⁸³  from me what is mine ¹⁸⁴  and will tell it to you. ¹⁸⁵  16:15 Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit ¹⁸⁶  will receive from me what is mine ¹⁸⁷  and will tell it to you. ¹⁸⁸  16:16 In a little while you ¹⁸⁹  will see me no longer; again after a little while, you ¹⁹⁰  will see me.” ¹⁹¹ 

16:17 Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is the meaning of what he is saying, ¹⁹²  ‘In a little while you ¹⁹³  will not see me; again after a little while, you ¹⁹⁴  will see me,’ and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?” ¹⁹⁵  16:18 So they kept on repeating, ¹⁹⁶  “What is the meaning of what he says, ¹⁹⁷  ‘In a little while’? ¹⁹⁸  We do not understand ¹⁹⁹  what he is talking about.” ²⁰⁰ 

16:19 Jesus could see ²⁰¹  that they wanted to ask him about these things, ²⁰²  so ²⁰³  he said to them, “Are you asking ²⁰⁴  each other about this – that I said, ‘In a little while you ²⁰⁵  will not see me; again after a little while, you ²⁰⁶  will see me’? 16:20 I tell you the solemn truth, ²⁰⁷  you will weep ²⁰⁸  and wail, ²⁰⁹  but the world will rejoice; you will be sad, ²¹⁰  but your sadness will turn into ²¹¹  joy. 16:21 When a woman gives birth, she has distress ²¹²  because her time ²¹³  has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being ²¹⁴  has been born into the world. ²¹⁵  16:22 So also you have sorrow ²¹⁶  now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. ²¹⁷  16:23 At that time ²¹⁸  you will ask me nothing. I tell you the solemn truth, ²¹⁹  whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. ²²⁰  16:24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, ²²¹  so that your joy may be complete.

16:25 “I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; ²²²  a time ²²³  is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you ²²⁴  plainly ²²⁵  about the Father. 16:26 At that time ²²⁶  you will ask in my name, and I do not say ²²⁷  that I will ask the Father on your behalf. 16:27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. ²²⁸  16:28 I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, ²²⁹  I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.” ²³⁰ 

16:29 His disciples said, “Look, now you are speaking plainly ²³¹  and not in obscure figures of speech! ²³²  16:30 Now we know that you know everything ²³³  and do not need anyone ²³⁴  to ask you anything. ²³⁵  Because of this ²³⁶  we believe that you have come from God.”

16:31 Jesus replied, ²³⁷  “Do you now believe? 16:32 Look, a time ²³⁸  is coming – and has come – when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, ²³⁹  and I will be left alone. ²⁴⁰  Yet ²⁴¹  I am not alone, because my Father ²⁴²  is with me. 16:33 I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, ²⁴³  but take courage ²⁴⁴  – I have conquered the world.” ²⁴⁵ 

17:1 When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward ²⁴⁶  to heaven ²⁴⁷  and said, “Father, the time ²⁴⁸  has come. Glorify your Son, so that your ²⁴⁹  Son may glorify you – 17:2 just as you have given him authority over all humanity, ²⁵⁰  so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him. ²⁵¹  17:3 Now this ²⁵²  is eternal life ²⁵³  – that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, ²⁵⁴  whom you sent. 17:4 I glorified you on earth by completing ²⁵⁵  the work you gave me to do. ²⁵⁶  17:5 And now, Father, glorify me at your side ²⁵⁷  with the glory I had with you before the world was created. ²⁵⁸ 

17:6 “I have revealed ²⁵⁹  your name to the men ²⁶⁰  you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, ²⁶¹  and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed ²⁶²  your word. 17:7 Now they understand ²⁶³  that everything ²⁶⁴  you have given me comes from you, 17:8 because I have given them the words you have given me. They ²⁶⁵  accepted ²⁶⁶  them ²⁶⁷  and really ²⁶⁸  understand ²⁶⁹  that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. 17:9 I am praying ²⁷⁰  on behalf of them. I am not praying ²⁷¹  on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you. ²⁷²  17:10 Everything ²⁷³  I have belongs to you, ²⁷⁴  and everything you have belongs to me, ²⁷⁵  and I have been glorified by them. ²⁷⁶  17:11 I ²⁷⁷  am no longer in the world, but ²⁷⁸  they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe ²⁷⁹  in your name ²⁸⁰  that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. ²⁸¹  17:12 When I was with them I kept them safe ²⁸²  and watched over them ²⁸³  in your name ²⁸⁴  that you have given me. Not one ²⁸⁵  of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, ²⁸⁶  so that the scripture could be fulfilled. ²⁸⁷  17:13 But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience ²⁸⁸  my joy completed ²⁸⁹  in themselves. 17:14 I have given them your word, ²⁹⁰  and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, ²⁹¹  just as I do not belong to the world. ²⁹²  17:15 I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe ²⁹³  from the evil one. ²⁹⁴  17:16 They do not belong to the world ²⁹⁵  just as I do not belong to the world. ²⁹⁶  17:17 Set them apart ²⁹⁷  in the truth; your word is truth. 17:18 Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. ²⁹⁸  17:19 And I set myself apart ²⁹⁹  on their behalf, ³⁰⁰  so that they too may be truly set apart. ³⁰¹ 

17:20 “I am not praying ³⁰²  only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe ³⁰³  in me through their testimony, ³⁰⁴  17:21 that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray ³⁰⁵  that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me. 17:22 The glory ³⁰⁶  you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one – 17:23 I in them and you in me – that they may be completely one, ³⁰⁷  so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

17:24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, ³⁰⁸  so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world ³⁰⁹ . 17:25 Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men ³¹⁰  know that you sent me. 17:26 I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, ³¹¹  so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”