Let not your heart be troubled. You are trusting God, now trust in me. There are many homes up there where my father lives, and I am going to prepare them for you coming. When everything is ready I will come and get you so that you can always be with me where I am. If this weren�t so, I would tell you plainly. And you know where I�m going and how to get there. Jesus told him, �I am the way-yes, and the Truth and the Life. No one can get to the father except by means of me. If you had know who I am, then you would have known who my Father is. From now on you know him and have seen him!� Philip said, �Sir show us the Father and we will be satisfied.� Jesus replied, �Don�t you even yet know who I am, Philip, even after all this time I have been with yoyu?? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father! So why are you asking to see him? Don�t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I say are not my won but are from my Father who lives in me. And he does his work throught me. Just believe it-that I am in the father and the Father is in me. Or else believe it because of the mighty miracls you have seen me do.� In solemn truth I tell you, anyone believing in me shall do the same miracles I have done, and even greater ones, because I am going to be with the Father. You can ask him for anything using my name and I will do it, for this will bring praise to the Father because of what I, the Son, will do for you. Yes, ask anything using my name and I will do it! If you love me, obey me; and I will ask the Father and he will give you another Comforter, and he will never leave you. He is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit who leads into all truth. The world at large cannot receive him, for it isn�t looking for him and doesn�t recognize him. But you do, for he lives with you now and someday shall be in you. No, I will not abandon you or leave you as orphans in the storm-I will come to you. In just a little while I will be gone from the world, but I will live again-and you will too. When I come back to life again, you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. The one who obeys me is the one who loves me; and because he loves me my Father will love him; and I will too and I will reveal myself to him. There is some more left in this chapter, but I will let you do the rest of the reading. |