John 14:1-31
Jesus Comforts His Disciples
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.”
Jesus the Way to the Father
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.
Jesus is Divine...Of all the Scripture, I believe that John chapter fourteen sums up Jesus claims and statements and His acts that He is Divine...St. John tells that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was and is God...Jesus was with God in the beginning...Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made...Jesus and and the Father are One...Jesus told His Disciples, 'I AM the Way and the Truth and the Life...No one comes to the Father except through Me...If You know Me, you know My Father as well...From now on you know him and have seen him."...And He adds that if you have seen Him, you have seen the God...And Jesus is the One who tells His Disciples that they will be receiving the Holy Spirit...
St. Paul stated: Let the same attitude be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though He was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be exploited, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness."...Jesus is the Image of the Invisible God, the firstborn of all creation...For by Him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through Him and for Him...And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold and work together...
Jesus did not deny His Divinity...There were people who one day followed Him to a boat and on the boat they worshiped Him, saying, "Truly You are the Son of God."...After Jesus rose from the dead, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were going to tell His disciples, there they met Jesus who said to them, 'Greetings!'...And they came up and took hold of His feet and worshiped Him...And there were several instances in the Gospels writing about Jesus forgiving sins...Forgiveness of sins was considered a Divine prerogative in Judaism...Again, Jesus accepts His being worshipped and His forgiveness statements as the Truth...
The most prominent explanation that Jesus is Divine is the doctrine of the Trinity...The Trinity states that God exists as Three Distinct Persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) but is One God in essence...These Three Distinct Persons are mention in the above verses by John in chapter fourteen...This allows followers of Jesus to believe in Jesus' Divinity while maintaining monotheism (belief in the One True Invisible God)...