Jesus said, “I will ask the Father and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever.”
–John 14:16 (NRSVCE) Image Courtesy: Franciscan Friars
Jesus The Way to The Father
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to Myself, so that where I am, there you may be also. You know the way to the place where I am going.”
Thomas said to Him, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?’
Jesus said to him (Thomas), “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you know Me, you will know My Father also. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”
Philip said to Him (Jesus), ‘Lord, show us the Father and we will be satisfied.’
Jesus said to him (Philip), “Have I been with you all this time Philip and you still do not know Me? Whoever has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ 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 but the Father who dwells in Me does His works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me but if you do not, then believe Me because of the works themselves.
Very truly I tell you, the one who believes in Me will also do the works that I do and in fact, will do greater works than these because I am going to the Father. I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If in My name you ask Me for anything, I will do it.”
The Promise of the Holy Spirit
“If you love Me, you will keep My Commandments and I will ask the Father and He will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees Him not knows Him. You know Him because He abides with you and He will be in you.
I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see Me but you will see Me because I live, you also will live. On that day you will know that I am in My Father and you in Me and I in you.
They who have My Commandments sand keep them are those who love Me and those who love Me will be loved by My Father and I will love them and reveal Myself to them.”
Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him (Jesus), ‘Lord, how is it that You will reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?’
Jesus answered him (Judas) “Those who love Me will keep My Word and My Father will love them and We will come to them and make Our home with them. Whoever does not love Me does not keep My Words and the Word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who sent Me. I have said these things to you while I am still with you but the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you everything and remind you of all that I have said to you. Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not let them be afraid.
You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away and I am coming to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father because the Father is greater than I and now I have told you this before it occurs, so that when it does occur, you may believe.
I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, he has no power over Me but I do as the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us be on our way.” –John 14:1-31
Jesus Prays For His Disciples
Jesus looked up to Heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come, glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify You, since You have given Him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given Him and this eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. I glorified You on earth by finishing the work that You gave me to do. So now, Father, glorify Me in Your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.
I have made known Your name to those whom You gave Me from the world. They were Yours and You gave them to Me and they have kept Your Word. Now they know that everything You have given Me is from You; For the Words that You gave to Me I have given to them and they have received them and know in truth that I came from You and they have believed that You sent Me. I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world but on behalf of those whom You gave Me because they are Yours. All Mine are Yours and Yours are mine and I have been glorified in them and now I am no longer in the world but they are in the world and I am coming to You.
Holy Father, protect them in Your Name that You have given Me, so that they may be one, as We are one.
While I was with them. I protected them in Your Name that You have given Me. I guarded them and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost so that the Scripture might be fulfilled but now I am coming to You and I speak these things in the world so that they may have My joy made complete in themselves. I have given them Your Word and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I am not asking You to take them out of the world but I ask You to protect them from the evil one. They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world. Sanctify them in the truth. As You have sent Me into the world, so I have sent them into the world and for their sakes I sanctify Myself so that they also may be sanctified in truth.
I ask not only on behalf of these but also on behalf of those who will believe in Me through their word, that they may all be one. As You, Father, are in Me and I am in You, may they also be in Us so that the world may believe that You have sent Me.
The glory that You have given Me I have given them, so that they may be one, as We are one, I in them and You in Me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me.
Father, I desire that those also, whom You have given Me, may be with Me where I am, to see the glory, which You have given Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
Righteous Father, the world does not know You but I know You and these know that You have sent Me. I made known Your name known to them and I will make it known so that the love with which you have loved Me may be in them and I in them.” –John 17:1-26
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