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Love one another
31 When Judas had gone out, Jesus began to speak.
“Now the son of man is glorified!” he said. “Now God is glorified in him! 32 And if God is glorified in him, God will glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once. 33 Children, I’m only with you a little longer. You will look for me, and, as I said to the Judaeans that where I was going they couldn’t come, so I’m saying the same to you now.
34 “I’m giving you a new commandment, and it’s this: love one another! Just as I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 This is how everybody will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for each other.”
36 Simon Peter spoke up.
“Master,” he said, “where are you going?”
“Where I’m going,” replied Jesus, “you can’t follow me just now. You will follow later, though.”
37 “Master,” Peter replied, “why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!”
38 “Will you really lay down your life for me?” smiled Jesus. “I’m telling you the solemn truth: by the time the cock crows you will have disowned me three times.”
The way, the truth, the life
14 “Don’t let your hearts be troubled,” Jesus continued. “Trust God—and trust me, too! 2 There is plenty of room to stay in my father’s house. If that wasn’t the case, I’d have told you, wouldn’t I? I’m going to get a place ready for you! 3 And if I do go and get a place ready for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, so that you can be there, where I am. 4 And as to where I’m going—you know the way!”
5 “Actually, Master,” said Thomas to him, “we don’t know where you’re going, so how can we know the way?”
6 “I am the way,” replied Jesus, “and the truth and the life! Nobody comes to the father except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my father. From now on you do know him! You have seen him.”
8 “Just show us the father, then, Master,” said Philip to Jesus, “and that’ll be good enough for us!”
9 “Have I been with you for such a long time, Philip,” replied Jesus, “and still you don’t know me? 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 the father is in me? The words I’m speaking to you, I’m not speaking on my own initiative. It’s the father, who lives within me, who is doing his own works. 11 You must trust me that I am in the father and the father is in me. If not, then trust because of all the things you’ve seen done.”
Another helper
12 “I’m telling you the solemn truth,” Jesus continued. “Anyone who trusts in me will also do the works that I’m doing. In fact, they will do greater works than these, because I’m going to the father! 13 And whatever you ask in my name, I will do it, so that the father may be glorified in the son. 14 If you ask anything in my name, I will do it.
Scripture quotations from The New Testament for Everyone are copyright © Nicholas Thomas Wright 2011, 2018, 2019.