“How Can We Know the Way?”

I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life

¹d“Let not your hearts be troubled. eBelieve in God;1 believe also in me. ²In fmy Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that gI go to prepare a place for you?2 ³And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you hto myself, that iwhere I am you may be also. ⁴And you know the way to where I am going.”3 ⁵jThomas said to him, “Lord, kwe do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ⁶Jesus said to him, “I am lthe way, and mthe truth, and nthe life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ⁷oIf you had known me, you would have pknown my Father also.4 From now on you do know him and qhave seen him.”

⁸rPhilip said to him, “Lord, sshow us the Father, and it is enough for us.” ⁹Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? tWhoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰Do you not believe that uI am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you vI do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. ¹¹Believe me that uI am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else wbelieve on account of the works themselves.

¹²“Truly, truly, I say to you, xwhoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I yam going to the Father. ¹³zWhatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that athe Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴zIf you ask me5 anything in my name, I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

¹⁵b“If you love me, you will ckeep my commandments. ¹⁶And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another dHelper,6 to be with you forever, ¹⁷even ethe Spirit of truth, fwhom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and gwill be7 in you.

¹⁸“I will not leave you as orphans; hI will come to you. ¹⁹iYet a little while and the world will see me no more, but jyou will see me. kBecause I live, you also will live. ²⁰lIn that day you will know that mI am in my Father, and nyou in me, and oI in you. ²¹pWhoever has my commandments and qkeeps them, he it is who loves me. And rhe who loves me swill be loved by my Father, and I will love him and tmanifest myself to him.” ²²uJudas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it vthat you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” ²³Jesus answered him, w“If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and xwe will come to him and ymake our home with him. ²⁴Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And zthe word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

²⁵“These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. ²⁶But the aHelper, 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 have said to you. ²⁷ePeace I leave with you; fmy peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. gLet not your hearts be troubled, neither hlet them be afraid. ²⁸iYou heard me say to you, j‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I kam going to the Father, for lthe Father is greater than I. ²⁹And mnow I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe. ³⁰I will no longer talk much with you, for nthe ruler of this world is coming. oHe has no claim on me, ³¹but I do pas the Father has commanded me, qso that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.