The New Testament & Psalms Bible Reading Plan
March 23
John 14
Chapter 14
Jesus Comforts His Disciples
1 “Do not let your heart be troubled; believe 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 I go to prepare a place for you.
3 “If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you
to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.
4 “And you know the way where I am going.”
5 Thomas *?said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, how
do we know the way?”
6 Jesus *?said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one
comes to the Father but through Me.
Oneness with the Father
7 “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on
you know Him, and have seen Him.”
8 Philip *?said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for
us.”
9 Jesus *?said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have
not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can
you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
10 “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me?
The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father
abiding in Me does His works.
11 “Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise
believe 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 greater works than these he will do; because I go to
the Father.
13 “Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may
be glorified in the Son.
14 “If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.
15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
Role of the Spirit
16 “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He
may be with you forever;
17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does
not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will
be in you.
18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
19 “After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will
see Me; because I live, you will live also.
20 “In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and
I in you.
21 “He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me;
and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will
disclose Myself to him.”
22 Judas (not Iscariot) *?said to Him, “Lord, what then has happened that
You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world?”
23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My
word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode
with him.
24 “He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the 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 Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name,
He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to
you.
27 “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives
do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.
28 “You heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to
you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father,
for the Father is greater than I.
29 “Now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you
may believe.
30 “I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is
coming, and he has nothing in Me;
31 but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the
Father commanded Me. Get up, let us go from here.
"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation Used by permission." (www.Lockman.org)