Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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Jesus the Way to the Father
1 “Do not be worried and upset,”
Jesus told them. “Believe
note in God and believe also in me.
2 There are many rooms in my Father's
house, and I am going to prepare
a place for you. I would not tell
you this if it were not so. note
3 And after
I go and prepare a place for you, I
will come back and take you to myself,
so that you will be where I am.
4 You know the way that leads to the
place where I am going.”
5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we
do not know where you are going; so
how can we know the way to get
there?”
6 Jesus answered him, “I am the
way, the truth, and the life; no one
goes to the Father except by me. note
7 Now that you have known me,” he
said to them, “you will know note my
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Father also, and from now on you do
know him and you have seen him.”
8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show
us the Father; that is all we need.”
9 Jesus answered, “For a long
time I have been with you all; yet
you do not know me, Philip? Whoever
has seen me has seen the Father.
Why, then, do you say, ‘Show
us the Father’?
10 Do you not believe,
Philip, that I am in the Father and
the Father is in me? The words that I
have spoken to you,” Jesus said to
his disciples, “do not come from me.
The Father, who remains in me, does
his own work.
11 Believe me when I
say that I am in the Father and the
Father is in me. If not, believe because
of the things I do.
12 I am telling
you the truth: whoever believes
in me will do what I do—yes, he will
do even greater things, because I am
going to the Father.
13 And I will do
whatever you ask for in my name, so
that the Father's glory will be shown
through the Son.
14 If you ask me note for
anything in my name, I will do it.
The Promise of the Holy Spirit
15 “If you love me, you will obey
my commandments. note
16 I will ask the
Father, and he will give you another
Helper, who will stay with you forever.
17 He is the Spirit, who reveals
the truth about God. The world cannot
receive him, because it cannot
see him or know him. But you know
him, because he remains with you
and is note in you.
18 “When I go, you will not be left
all alone; I will come back to you.
19 In a little while the world will see
me no more, but you will see me;
and because I live, you also will live.
20 When that day comes, you will
know that I am in my Father and
that you are in me, just as I am in
you.
21 “Whoever accepts my commandments
and obeys them is the
one who loves me. My Father will
love whoever loves me; I too will
love him and reveal myself to him.” note
22 Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said,
“Lord, how can it be that you will
reveal yourself to us and not to the
world?”
23 Jesus answered him, “Whoever
loves me will obey my teaching. My
Father will love him, and my Father
and I will come to him and live with
him.
24 Whoever does not love me
does not obey my teaching. And the
teaching you have heard is not mine,
but comes from the Father, who sent
me.
25 “I have told you this while I am
still with you.
26 The Helper, the Holy
Spirit, whom the Father will send in
my name, will teach you everything
and make you remember all that I
have told you.
27 “Peace is what I leave with you;
it is my own peace that I give you. I
do not give it as the world does. Do
not be worried and upset; do not be
afraid.
28 You heard me say to you, ‘I
am leaving, but I will come back to
you.’ If you loved me, you would be
glad that I am going to the Father;
for he is greater than I.
29 I have told
you this now before it, all happens,
so that when it does happen, you
will believe.
30 I cannot talk with you
much longer, because the ruler of
this world is coming. He has no
power over me,
31 but the world
must know that I love the Father;
that is why I do everything as he
commands me.
31 “Come, let us go from this place.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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