John from The Message Bible with an opportunity to comment on each chapter

John 14:1  "Don't let this throw you. You trust God, don't you? Trust me.

John 14:2  There is plenty of room for you in my Father's home. If that weren't so, would I have told you that I'm on my way to get a room ready for you?

John 14:3  And if I'm on my way to get your room ready, I'll come back and get you so you can live where I live.

John 14:4  And you already know the road I'm taking."

John 14:5  Thomas said, "Master, we have no idea where you're going. How do you expect us to know the road?"

John 14:6  Jesus said, "I am the Road, also the Truth, also the Life. No one gets to the Father apart from me.

John 14:7  If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him. You've even seen him!"

John 14:8  Philip said, "Master, show us the Father; then we'll be content."

John 14:9  "You've been with me all this time, Philip, and you still don't understand? To see me is to see the Father. So how can you ask, 'Where is the Father?'

John 14:10  Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you aren't mere words. I don't just make them up on my own. The Father who resides in me crafts each word into a divine act.

John 14:11  "Believe me: I am in my Father and my Father is in me. If you can't believe that, believe what you see--these works.

John 14:12  The person who trusts me will not only do what I'm doing but even greater things, because I, on my way to the Father, am giving you the same work to do that I've been doing. You can count on it.

John 14:13  From now on, whatever you request along the lines of who I am and what I am doing, I'll do it. That's how the Father will be seen for who he is in the Son. I mean it.

John 14:14  Whatever you request in this way, I'll do.

John 14:15  "If you love me, show it by doing what I've told you.

John 14:16  I will talk to the Father, and he'll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you.

John 14:17  This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can't take him in because it doesn't have eyes to see him, doesn't know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you!

John 14:18  "I will not leave you orphaned. I'm coming back.

John 14:19  In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you're going to see me because I am alive and you're about to come alive.

John 14:20  At that moment you will know absolutely that I'm in my Father, and you're in me, and I'm in you.

John 14:21  "The person who knows my commandments and keeps them, that's who loves me. And the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and make myself plain to him."

John 14:22  Judas (not Iscariot) said, "Master, why is it that you are about to make yourself plain to us but not to the world?"

John 14:23  "Because a loveless world," said Jesus, "is a sightless world. If anyone loves me, he will carefully keep my word and my Father will love him--we'll move right into the neighborhood!

John 14:24  Not loving me means not keeping my words. The message you are hearing isn't mine. It's the message of the Father who sent me.

John 14:25  "I'm telling you these things while I'm still living with you.

John 14:26  The Friend, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will make everything plain to you. He will remind you of all the things I have told you.

John 14:27  I'm leaving you well and whole. That's my parting gift to you. Peace. I don't leave you the way you're used to being left--feeling abandoned, bereft. So don't be upset. Don't be distraught.

John 14:28  "You've heard me tell you, 'I'm going away, and I'm coming back.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I'm on my way to the Father because the Father is the goal and purpose of my life.

John 14:29  "I've told you this ahead of time, before it happens, so that when it does happen, the confirmation will deepen your belief in me.

John 14:30  I'll not be talking with you much more like this because the chief of this godless world is about to attack. But don't worry--he has nothing on me, no claim on me.

John 14:31  But so the world might know how thoroughly I love the Father, I am carrying out my Father's instructions right down to the last detail. "Get up. Let's go. It's time to leave here.

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