John 14 - 16 — Legacy Standard Bible

I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life

14“^aDo not let your heart be troubled; ¹believe in God, believe also in Me. ²“In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for ^aI go to prepare a place for you. ³“And if I go and prepare a place for you, ^aI will come again and receive you to Myself, that ^bwhere I am, there you may be also. ⁴“And you know the way where I am going.” ⁵^aThomas *said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going. How do we know the way?” ⁶Jesus *said to him, “I am ^athe way, and ^bthe truth, and ^cthe life. No one comes to the Father but through Me.

Oneness with the Father

⁷“^aIf you have come to know Me, you will know My Father also; from now on you ^bknow Him, and have ^cseen Him.”

⁸^aPhilip *said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” ⁹Jesus *said to him, “Have I been with you all so long and have you not come to know Me, Philip? ^aHe who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰“Do you not believe that ^aI am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? ^bThe words that I say to you I do not speak from Myself, but the Father abiding in Me does His works. ¹¹“Believe Me that ^aI am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise ^bbelieve because of the works themselves. ¹²“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and ^agreater works than these he will do because ^bI go to the Father. ¹³“^aWhatever you ask in My name, this will I do, so that ^bthe Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴“If you ask Me anything ^ain My name, I will do it.

¹⁵“^aIf you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

¹⁶“And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another ¹^,^aAdvocate, that He may be with you forever; ¹⁷^athe Spirit of truth, ^bwhom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. You know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.

¹⁸“I will not leave you as orphans; ^aI will come to you. ¹⁹“¹^,^aAfter a little while ^bthe world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; ^cbecause I live, you will live also. ²⁰“^aOn that day you will know that ^bI am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. ²¹“^aHe who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and ^bhe who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will ^cdisclose Myself to him.” ²²^aJudas (not Iscariot) *said to Him, “Lord, what then has happened ^bthat You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world?” ²³Jesus answered and said to him, “^aIf anyone loves Me, he will ^bkeep My word; and ^cMy Father will love him, and We ^dwill come to him and make Our dwelling with him. ²⁴“He who does not love Me ^adoes not keep My words; and ^bthe word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.

²⁵“These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you. ²⁶“But the ^aAdvocate, the Holy Spirit, ^bwhom the Father will send in My name, ^cHe will teach you all things, and ^dbring to your remembrance all that I said to you. ²⁷“^aPeace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. ^bDo not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. ²⁸“^aYou heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and ^bI will come to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because ^cI go to the Father, for ^dthe Father is greater than I. ²⁹“And now ^aI have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe. ³⁰“I will not speak much more with you, for ^athe ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me; ³¹but so that the world may know that I love the Father, ¹I do exactly as ^athe Father commanded Me. Get up, ^blet us go from here.

I Am the True Vine

15“^aI am the true vine, and My Father is the ^bvine-grower. ²“Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He ¹cleans it so that it may bear more fruit. ³“^aYou are already ¹clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴“^aAbide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit from itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. ⁵“I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he ^abears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. ⁶“If anyone does not abide in Me, he is ^athrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. ⁷“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ^aask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. ⁸“My ^aFather is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so ¹^,^bprove to be My disciples. ⁹“Just as ^athe Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. ¹⁰“^aIf you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as ^bI have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. ¹¹“^aThese things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your ^bjoy may be complete.

Jesus’ Commandment Is Love

¹²“This is ^aMy commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. ¹³“^aGreater love has no one than this, that one ^blay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴“You are My ^afriends if ^byou do what I command you. ¹⁵“No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ^aall things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶“^aYou did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and ^bbear fruit, and that your fruit would abide, so that ^cwhatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. ¹⁷“This ^aI command you, that you love one another.

If the World Hates You

¹⁸“^aIf the world hates you, ¹know that it has hated Me before it hated you. ¹⁹“If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but ^aI chose you out of the world, ^bbecause of this the world hates you. ²⁰“Remember the word that I said to you, ‘^aA slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, ^bthey will also persecute you; if they ^ckept My word, they will keep yours also. ²¹“But all these things they will do to you ^afor My name’s sake, ^bbecause they do not know the One who sent Me. ²²“^aIf I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have ¹sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³“He who hates Me hates My Father also. ²⁴“^aIf I had not done among them ^bthe works which no one else did, they would not have ¹sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. ²⁵“But this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their ^aLaw, ‘^bThey hated Me without cause.’

²⁶“When the ¹^,^aAdvocate comes, ^bwhom I will send to you from the Father, ^cthe Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, ^dHe will bear witness about Me, ²⁷¹and ^ayou will bear witness also, because you have been with Me ^bfrom the beginning.

Jesus’ Warning

16“^aThese things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept from ^bstumbling. ²“They will ^aput you out of the synagogue, but ^ban hour is coming for everyone ^cwho kills you to think that he is offering service to God. ³“These things they will do ^abecause they did not know the Father or Me. ⁴“But these things I have spoken to you, ^aso that when their hour comes, you ¹may remember that I told you of them. These things I did not say to you ^bat the beginning, because I was with you.

The Spirit Is Promised Again

⁵“But now ^aI am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, ‘^bWhere are You going?’ ⁶“But because I have said these things to you, ^asorrow has filled your heart. ⁷“But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the ¹^,^aAdvocate will not come to you; but if I go, ^bI will send Him to you. ⁸“And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; ⁹concerning sin, ^abecause they do not believe in Me; ¹⁰and concerning ^arighteousness, because ^bI go to the Father and you no longer see Me; ¹¹^aand concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

¹²“I still have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. ¹³“But when He, ^athe Spirit of truth, comes, He will ^bguide you into all the truth; for He will not speak from Himself, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. ¹⁴“He will ^aglorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you. ¹⁵“^aAll things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.

Sorrow Turned to Joy

¹⁶“^aA little while, and ^byou will no longer see Me; and again a little while, and ^cyou will see Me.” ¹⁷Some of His disciples then said to one another, “What is this He is telling us, ‘^aA little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’; and, ‘because ^bI go to the Father’?” ¹⁸So they were saying, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not know what He is talking about.” ¹⁹^aJesus knew that they were wishing to question Him, and He said to them, “Are you deliberating together about this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me’? ²⁰“Truly, truly, I say to you, that ^ayou will cry and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will be sorrowful, but ^byour sorrow will be turned into joy. ²¹“^aWhenever a woman is in labor she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a ¹child has been born into the world. ²²“Therefore ^ayou too have sorrow now; but ^bI will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

I Have Overcome the World

²³“^aAnd on that day ^byou will not question Me about anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, ^cif you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you. ²⁴“^aUntil now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your ^bjoy may be made complete.

²⁵“These things I have spoken to you in ^afigures of speech; ^ban hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you openly of the Father. ²⁶“^aOn that day ^byou will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will request of the Father on your behalf; ²⁷for ^athe Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and ^bhave believed that ^cI came forth from the Father. ²⁸“^aI came forth from the Father and have come into the world; I am leaving the world again and ^bgoing to the Father.”

²⁹His disciples *said, “Behold, now You are speaking openly and are not ¹using ^aa figure of speech. ³⁰“Now we know that You know all things, and have no need for anyone to question You; by this we ^abelieve that You ^bcame from God.” ³¹Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? ³²“Behold, ^aan hour is coming, and has already come, for ^byou to be scattered, each to ^chis own home, and to leave Me alone; and yet ^dI am not alone, because the Father is with Me. ³³“These things I have spoken to you, so that ^ain Me you may have peace. ^bIn the world you have tribulation, but ^ctake courage; ^dI have overcome the world.”