IN SORROW
----John 14----
1 Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God;
trust also in me.
2 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.
3 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.
4 You know the way to the place where I am going.
5 Thomas said to him, Lord, we don\'t know where
you
are going, so how can we know the way?
6 Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and
the
life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
7 If you really knew me, you would know my Father
as
well. From now on, you do know him and have seen
him.
8 Philip said, Lord, show us the Father and that
will be enough for us.
9 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?
10 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.
11 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.
12 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.
13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so
that
the Son may bring glory to the Father.
14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I
will
do it.
15 If you love me, you will obey what I command.
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you
another Counselor to be with you forever
17 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.
18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to
you.
19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore,
but you will see me. Because I live, you also will
live.
20 On that day you will realize that I am in my
Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
21 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.
22 Then Judas said, But, Lord,
why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to
the world?
23 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.
24 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.
25 All this I have spoken while still with you.
26 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.
27 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.
28 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.
29 I have told you now before it happens, so that
when it does happen you will believe.
30 I will not speak with you much longer, for the
prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me,
31 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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