John 14:5-21

⁵Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. So how can we know the road?”

⁶Jesus said to him, “I am the road MET to where my Father is. I am the one who reveals MET the truth about God and the one who gives eternal life to people. I am the only one who can enable people to come to my Father. There is no other way.

⁷If you really knew who I was, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and it is as though you have seen him.”

⁸Philip said to him, “Lord, show us your Father and that will be enough for us!”

⁹Jesus said to him, “Philip, I have been with you for a long time. So ◄surely you should know who I really am!/why have you not come to know who I really am?► RHQ Those who have seen me, it is as though they have seen my Father. So ◄why do you say ‘Show us your Father’?/you should not say ‘Show us your Father’!► RHQ

¹⁰Do you not RHQ believe that I have a close relationship with my Father, and that my Father has a close relationship with me? The messages that I tell you do not come from me. They come from my Father, who has a close relationship with me. He is enabling me to teach these things, and to perform the miracles that he wants me to perform.

¹¹Believe that I have a close relationship with my Father and that my Father has a close relationship with me. If you do not believe that just because of what I say, believe it because of the miracles themselves that I have done.

¹²Listen to this carefully: You who trust in me will do the kinds of miracles that I have done. Because of what I will do for you (OR, Because I will send God's Spirit to you) after I go to my Father, you will be able to do miracles that will be greater than the ones I have done.

¹³And whatever you, using my authority, ask me to do, I will do it, in order that I can show you how great my Father is.

¹⁴Anything that you ask my Father to do, anything that you ask with my authority MTY, I will do.”

¹⁵“If you love me, you will do what I have commanded you.

¹⁶Then I myself will request my Father, and he will send you someone else who will ◄encourage/be like a legal counsel for► you.

¹⁷I am talking about the Spirit, who will teach you God's truth. He will be with you forever. Those who are opposed to God MTY cannot receive him, because they cannot understand what he does, and they cannot know who he is. But you know who he is, because he is with you and he will be inside you.

¹⁸When I leave you, I will not let you be alone/helpless MET. When I send the Spirit, it will be like I am coming back to you (OR, When I rise from the dead, I will come back to you.)

¹⁹Soon those who do not belong to God MTY will not see me anymore. But when the Spirit comes to you, it will be as though you will be seeing me again (OR, But after I become alive again, you will see me again.) Because I will be alive again, you also will have eternal life.

²⁰At that time you will know that I have a close relationship with my Father, and you will have a close relationship with me, and I will have a close relationship with you.

²¹Those who have accepted my commands and obey them are the people who love me. My Father will love those who love me. I also will love them, and I will fully reveal to them what I am like.”