John 14

The TorahRooted Bible (TRB), translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek.

The way to the Father

¹ "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in Elohim, believe also in Me. ² In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. ⁴ And where I go you know, and the way you know." ⁵ Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?" ⁶ Yeshua said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. ⁷ If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him." ⁸ Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us." ⁹ Yeshua said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, 'Show us the Father'? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. ¹¹ Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves. ¹² Amen, amen, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. ¹³ And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.

The promise of the Holy Spirit

¹⁵ If you love Me, keep My commandments. ¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever, ¹⁷ the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. ¹⁹ A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. ²⁰ In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. ²¹ He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him." ²² Judas, not Iscariot, said to Him, "Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?" ²³ Yeshua answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. ²⁴ He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me. ²⁵ These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. ²⁶ But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. ²⁷ Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. ²⁸ You have heard Me say to you, 'I am going away and coming back to you.' If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, 'I am going to the Father,' for My Father is greater than I. ²⁹ And now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe. ³⁰ I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me. ³¹ But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here."

Notes

• 14:2 "My Father's house" is what Yeshua called the temple (2:16), the place where Elohim dwelt among Israel. "Dwelling places" is monai, from menō, "abide, remain," the word of verse 23, where the Father and the Son "make Our home" with the one who loves Him. Many link the picture with first-century wedding customs, a bridegroom preparing rooms in his father's house, though the details are known mostly from later sources.
• 14:6 In Hebrew thought "the way" (derekh) is how a person walks before Elohim: "Blessed are the blameless in the way, who walk in the Torah of Yahweh" (Psalm 119:1). Yeshua says He Himself is that way, the truth and the life, and the first believers came to be called "the Way" (Acts 9:2; 24:14).
• 14:13 In Hebrew thought a name stands for the person and his authority. To ask "in My name" is to ask as Yeshua's representatives, in line with who He is and what He wants, not to add a formula to a prayer; John says it plainly: "if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us" (1 John 5:14).
• 14:15 "Keep" is a command (tērēsate) in the Majority Text, which the TRB follows; many modern Bibles, following other manuscripts, read "you will keep." Love for Yeshua is shown by keeping His commandments, and He says His words are "not Mine but the Father's who sent Me" (verse 24; compare 12:49-50), the commandments the Father gave, just as the Torah joins love and obedience: "those who love Me and keep My commandments" (Exodus 20:6).
• 14:16 "Helper" is paraklētos, "one called to stand beside": a helper, advocate or comforter. Yeshua calls Him "another" Helper, one like Himself, who will be with His disciples when He has gone to the Father. The same word is used of Yeshua as our "Advocate" with the Father (1 John 2:1).

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