John 14:1-31
Divine Jesus
1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”
5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
22 Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”
23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
25 “All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
28 “You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. 30 I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me, 31 but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me.
“Come now; let us leave.
To me, John's Gospel is different from the other gospels of our LORD...When I read chapter fourteen of John's Gospel, I see Jesus, very much, as being Divine...I see Jesus in much of John as being a Theologian, and here as well as chapter seventeen and many other chapters of John...John's Gospel and thoughts on Jesus and His Father to me are Divine...Jesus in John's Gospel gives us how Jesus has always been with His Father...St. John gives us longer accounts with people such as Nicodemus, which are theological lessons...His teachings on Lazarus in John eleven to me again are Divine and are important Theological Lessons from Jesus...
St. John, to me, promotes more His Special Relationship with God...God set Jesus apart as His Very Own, and sent Him to dwell among us...He tells us that Jesus and the Father are One...If we have seen Jesus, we have seen God...God, the Father, is our Creator...Both He and Jesus have been here from the beginning...There is One God, the Father, Whom all things are made and created, and all things are made through the Word, which is Jesus...Jesus is the Truth and the Way of Life...God is also the Truth and the Way of Life...God's Word is Truth, and His Truth will set us free...No one gets to God, except through Jesus...When Jesus ask about being equal to God, He answers, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are “gods”’?...If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the Word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside— what about the One whom the Father set apart as His Very Own and sent into the world?...Why then do you accuse Me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I AM God’s Son’?...Do not believe Me unless I do the works of My Father...But if I do them, even though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.” ...Again they tried to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp and was able to leave the unbelieving crowd...
Then Jesus tells us about the Holy Spirit in these verses, and we learn that His Holy Spirit will be with us when He leaves earth...And we will always have His Spirit, with us...So we get a glimpse of how things will be when He leaves and ascends to Heaven...All these things He has given us in the gospels and has taught us, while He was on earth...But now the Advocate, the Holy Spirit will come after He leaves earth, whom the Father would send in His Name...The Holy Spirit will teach you all things and will remind you of everything that Jesus had said to them...Peace He left with His Disciples and His Peace, He gave them...Jesus, His Father, and His Holy Spirit has a Peace which is not of this world, but a Spiritual Peace that this world cannot give or replicate...Let us believe in Him and let your hearts not be troubled and do not be afraid...He would be leaving them and then come back to them after He Rises from death on the Cross...On the Cross, He saves mankind of our sins...If we LOVE Him then we would be glad that He went back to His Father in Heaven, for the Father is much Greater than His Son...He told His Disciples these things so they would be aware of them before they happened, so that when these miracles happened they would believe even more in Him...The evil one would still be on earth and temptations arise because of Him...But the evil one has no hold over Jesus...Jesus came to show and teach us that the world may learn that He LOVES and believes in the Father and always does exactly what His Father has commanded Him to do...Jesus always does and follows God's Will...