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He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how <i>can</i> you say, Show us the Father? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater <i>works</i> than these he will do; because I go to the Father. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do <i>it.</i> <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Role of the Spirit</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span><i>that is</i> the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, <i>but</i> you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you <i>will</i> see Me; because I live, you will live also. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, Lord, what then has happened that You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>Jesus 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 abode with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Fathers who sent Me. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>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 that I said to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>You heard that I said to you, I go away, and I will come to you. If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>Now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me; <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/14-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let us go from here. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/john/14.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/john/14.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />In my Father's house there are many mansions. If not, I would have told you: because I go to prepare a place for you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/john/14.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />In my Father's house there are many abodes; were it not so, I had told you: for I go to prepare you a place;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/john/14.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/john/14.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/john/14.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />In my Father's house there are many resting-places. Were it otherwise, I would have told you; for I am going to make ready a place for you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/john/14.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/john/14.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/chapman/and_judas_iscariot/paul_a_pattern_of_prayer.htm">Paul a Pattern of Prayer</a><br></span><span class="snippet">TEXT: "If ye shall ask anything in my name I will do it."--John 14:14. Jesus testified in no uncertain way concerning prayer, for not alone in this chapter does he speak but in all his messages to his disciples he is seeking to lead them into the place where they may know how to pray. In this fourteenth chapter of John, where he is coming into the shadow of the cross and is speaking to his disciples concerning those things which ought to have the greatest weight with them, the heart of his message <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/chapman/and_judas_iscariot/paul_a_pattern_of_prayer.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">J. Wilbur Chapman—</span><span class="citation2">And Judas Iscariot</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/may_22_evening.htm">May 22 Evening</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The Spirit helpeth our infirmities.--ROM. 8:26. The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost.--What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God?--It is God which worketh in you. We know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which can not be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/may_22_evening.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/august_7_morning.htm">August 7 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name.--JOHN 14:26. If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.--If ye . . . being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?--Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/august_7_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/may_22_morning.htm">May 22 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.--JOHN 14:27. The world passeth away, and the lust thereof.--Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches. and knoweth not who shall gather them.--What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. Martha, Martha, thou are careful and troubled about many things: but one thing is needful: and Mary hath <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/may_22_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/january_14_morning.htm">January 14 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">My Father is greater than I.--JOHN 14:28. When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven.--My Father, and your Father; . . . my God and your God. As the Father gave me commandment, even so I do.--The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.--Thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. Lord, shew us <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/january_14_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/august_13_morning.htm">August 13 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">He hath prepared for them a city.--HEB. 11:16. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.--An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.--Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.--Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/august_13_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/december_26_evening.htm">December 26 Evening</a><br></span><span class="snippet">He is able . . . to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him.--HEB. 7:25. I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.--Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.--He which hath begun a good work <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/december_26_evening.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/june_23_morning.htm">June 23 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, even the Spirit of truth.--JOHN 14:16,17. It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if l depart, I will send him unto you. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.--Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.--The Spirit . . . helpeth our infirmities; <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/june_23_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/september_21_evening.htm">September 21 Evening</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all.--II COR. 13:14. I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.--He shall not speak of himself. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/september_21_evening.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/june_29_he_dwelleth_with.htm">June 29. "He Dwelleth with You and Shall be in You" (John xiv. 17). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"He dwelleth with you and shall be in you" (John xiv. 17). Do not fail to mark these two stages in Christian life. The one is the Spirit's work in us, the other is the Spirit's personal coming to abide within us. All true Christians know the first, but few, it is to be feared, understand and receive the second. There is a great difference between my building a house and my going to reside in that house and make it my home. And there is a great difference between the Holy Spirit's work in regenerating <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/june_29_he_dwelleth_with.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/november_9_because_i_live.htm">November 9. "Because I Live Ye Shall Live Also" (John xiv. 19). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Because I live ye shall live also" (John xiv. 19). After having become adjusted to our Living Head and the source of our life, now our business is to abide, absorb and grow, leaning on His strength, drinking in His life, feeding on Him as the Living Bread, and drawing all of our resources from Him in continual dependence and communion. The Holy Spirit will be the great Teacher and Minister in this blessed process. He will take of the things of Christ and show them unto us, and He will impart them <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/november_9_because_i_live.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. 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