John 14 — Way, Truth, Life; Paraclete

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Way, Truth, Life; Paraclete

'In my Father's house are many mansions'; 'I am the way, the truth and the life'; the Paraclete promised; 'peace I leave with you'.

ArgumentChrist's discourse after his last supper.

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Passages cited from this chapter

✠John 14:1–3

'Let not your heart be troubled... many mansions'

1Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God: believe also in me. 2In my Father's house there are many mansions. If not, I would have told you: because I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I shall go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself: that where I am, you also may be.

Sayings of Our Lord

✠John 14:6

'I am the way, and the truth, and the life'

6Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.

The 'I AM' sayings

John 14:15

'If you love me, keep my commandments'

15If you love me, keep my commandments.

Sayings of Our Lord

John 14:16–17

The Paraclete promised

16And I will ask the Father: and he shall give you another Paraclete, that he may abide with you for ever: 17The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, nor knoweth him. But you shall know him; because he shall abide with you and shall be in you.

Sayings of Our Lord

✠John 14:27

'Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you'

27Peace I leave with you: my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled: nor let it be afraid.

Sayings of Our Lord, Heard at Mass

The chapter entire — John 14, 31 verses

1Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God: believe also in me.

2In my Father's house there are many mansions. If not, I would have told you: because I go to prepare a place for you.

3And if I shall go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself: that where I am, you also may be.

4And whither I go you know: and the way you know.

5Thomas saith to him: Lord, we know not whither thou goest. And how can we know the way?

6Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.

7If you had known me, you would without doubt have known my Father also: and from henceforth you shall know him. And you have seen him.

8Philip saith to him: Lord, shew us the Father; and it is enough for us.

9Jesus saith to him: Have I been so long a time with you and have you not known me? Philip, he that seeth me seeth the Father also. How sayest thou: Shew us the Father?

10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself. But the Father who abideth in me, he doth the works.

11Believe you not that I am in the Father and the Father in me?

12Otherwise believe for the very works' sake. Amen, amen, I say to you, he that believeth in me, the works that I do, he also shall do: and greater than these shall he do.

13Because I go to the Father: and whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, that will I do: that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

14If you shall ask me any thing in my name, that I will do.

15If you love me, keep my commandments.

16And I will ask the Father: and he shall give you another Paraclete, that he may abide with you for ever:

Paraclete... That is, a comforter: or also an advocate; inasmuch as by inspiring prayer, he prays, as it were, in us, and pleads for us. For ever... Hence it is evident that this Spirit of Truth was not only promised to the persons of the apostles, but also to their successors through all generations.

17The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, nor knoweth him. But you shall know him; because he shall abide with you and shall be in you.

18I will not leave you orphans: I will come to you.

19Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more. But you see me: because I live, and you shall live.

20In that day you shall know that I am in my Father: and you in me, and I in you.

21He that hath my commandments and keepeth them; he it is that loveth me. And he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father: and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.

22Judas saith to him, not the Iscariot: Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself to us, and not to the world?

23Jesus answered and said to him: If any one love me, he will keep my word. And my Father will love him and we will come to him and will make our abode with him.

24He that loveth me not keepeth not my words. And the word which you have heard is not mine; but the Father's who sent me.

25These things have I spoken to you, abiding with you.

26But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring all things to your mind, whatsoever I shall have said to you.

Teach you all things... Here the Holy Ghost is promised to the apostles and their successors, particularly, in order to teach them all truth, and to preserve them from error.

27Peace I leave with you: my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled: nor let it be afraid.

28You have heard that I said to you: I go away, and I come unto you. If you loved me you would indeed be glad, because I go to the Father: for the Father is greater than I.

For the Father is greater than I... It is evident, that Christ our Lord speaks here of himself as he is made man: for as God he is equal to the Father. (See Phil. 2.) Any difficulty of understanding the meaning of these words will vanish, when the relative circumstances of the text here are considered: for Christ being at this time shortly to suffer death, signified to his apostles his human nature by these very words: for as God he could not die. And therefore as he was both God and man, it must follow that according to his humanity he was to die, which the apostles were soon to see and believe, as he expresses, ver. 29. And now I have told you before it come to pass: that when it shall come to pass, you may believe.

29And now I have told you before it come to pass: that when it shall come to pass, you may believe.

30I will not now speak many things with you. For the prince of this world: cometh: and in me he hath not any thing.

31But that the world may know that I love the Father: and as the Father hath given me commandments, so do I. Arise, let us go hence.

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