Gospel According to John (MLV)
John 14)
14:1 Do not let your* heart be disturbed: believe in God, believe also in me. 14:2 In my Father's house are many dwellings; if it were not so, I would have told you*. I go to prepare a place for you*. 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you*, I come again and will receive you* to myself; that where I am, there you* may be also. 14:4 And I go where you* know the way.
14:5 Thomas says to him, Lord, we do not know where you are going; how do we know the way?
14:6 Jesus says to him, I am the way and the truth and the life: no one comes to the Father, except through me. 14:7 If you* had known me, you* would have known my Father also: from now on you* know him and have seen him.
14:8 Philip says to him, Lord, show us the Father and it is sufficient for us.
14:9 Jesus says to him, Have I been so long of a time with you* and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father; how do you say, Show us the Father? 14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I say to you* I do not speak from myself: but the Father abiding in me is doing his works. 14:11 Either believe me, that I am in the Father and the Father in me: or else believe me because of the works themselves. 14:12 Truly, truly, 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 the Father. 14:13 And whatever you* will ask in my name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14:14 If you* will ask anything in my name, that I will do. 14:15 If you* love* me, you* will keep my commandments. 14:16 And I will pray the Father and he will give you* another Helper, that he may be with you* forever, 14:17 even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; because it does not behold him, neither knows him: you* know him; because he abides with you* and will be in you*. 14:18 I will not leave you* orphans: I come to you*. 14:19 Yet a little while and the world beholds me no more; but you* behold me: because I live, you* will live also. 14:20 In that day you* will know that I am in my Father and you* in me and I in you*. 14:21 He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves* me and he who loves* me will be loved* by my Father and I will love* him and will manifest myself to him.
14:22 Judas (not Iscariot) says to him, Lord, what is happening that you are about to manifest yourself to us and not to the world?
14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone love* me, he will keep my word and my Father will love* him and we will come to him and make our abode with him. 14:24 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.
14:25 I have spoken to you*these things, while yet abiding with you*. 14:26 But the Helper, even 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*. 14:27 I leave with you* peace. I give to you* my peace: not as the world is giving, I give to you*. Do not let your* heart be disturbed, nor let it be fearful. 14:28 You* heard how that I said to you*, I go away and I come to you*. If you* loved* me, you* would have rejoiced, because I said, I am going to the Father: because the Father is greater than I. 14:29 And now I have told you* before it happens, that, when it has happened, you* may believe. 14:30 I will not speak much longer with you*, for* the prince of the world is coming and he has nothing in me; 14:31 but that the world may know that I love* the Father and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix, copyright 1987, 1999, 2000 by G. Allen Walker for the New Testament Committee.