Christ’s discourse after his last supper.
14:1. Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God: believe also
in me.
14:2. 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.
14:3. And 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.
14:4. And whither I go you know: and the way you know.
14:5. Thomas saith to him: Lord, we know not whither thou goest. And
how can we know the way?
14:6. Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No
man cometh to the Father, but by me.
14:7. If 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.
14:8. Philip saith to him: Lord, shew us the Father; and it is enough
for us.
14:9. Jesus 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?
14:10. Do 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.
14:11. Believe you not that I am in the Father and the Father in me?
14:12. Otherwise 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.
14:13. Because 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.
14:14. If you shall ask me any thing in my name, that I will do.
14:15. If you love me, keep my commandments.
14:16. And 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.
14:17. The 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.
14:18. I will not leave you orphans: I will come to you.
14:19. Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more. But you see
me: because I live, and you shall live.
14:20. In that day you shall know that I am in my Father: and you in
me, and I in you.
14:21. He 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.
14:22. Judas saith to him, not the Iscariot: Lord, how is it that thou
wilt manifest thyself to us, and not to the world?
14:23. Jesus 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.
14:24. He 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.
14:25. These things have I spoken to you, abiding with you.
14:26. But 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.
14:27. Peace 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.
14:28. You 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.
14:29. And now I have told you before it come to pass: that when it
shall come to pass, you may believe.
14:30. I will not now speak many things with you. For the prince of
this world: cometh: and in me he hath not any thing.
14:31. But that the world may know that I love the Father: and as the
Father hath given me commandment, so do I. Arise, let us go hence.