
John 14:1-14
Eastertide A24
1 “Do not let your heartsA be troubled.B BelieveC in God,D believe also in me.
2 In my Father’s houseE there are many dwelling places.F If it were not so, would I have told you that I goG to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And you knowH the wayI to the place where I am going.”J
5 ThomasK said to him, “Lord,L we do not know where you are going. How canM we know the way?”
6 JesusN said to him, “I am the way,O and the truth,P and the life.Q No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you knowR me, you will know my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seenS him.”
8 PhilipT said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.”U
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you all this time,V Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever 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 wordsW that I say to you I do not speak on my own;X but the Father who dwellsY in me does his works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; but if you do not, then believe me because of the works themselves. 12 Very truly,Z I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 I will do whatever you ask in my name,AA so that the Father may be glorifiedBB in the Son. 14 If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it.
Image credit: “Jesus Praying” mural in Louisville, KY.