John 14:15–31
The Triune God abides with obedient believers, granting enduring peace.
15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:
17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.
18 I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, 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 One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”
23 Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
24 He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me.
25 I have said these things to you while still living with you.
26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
28 You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.
29 Now I have told you before it happens so that when it happens, you may believe.
30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here.
The Triune God abides with obedient believers, granting enduring peace.
To promise the Holy Spirit, define love through obedience, and assure believers of Christ’s abiding peace.
Following His declaration as the way to the Father, Jesus now explains how His departure results in a new mode of divine presence through the Spirit. The Farewell Discourse deepens into Trinitarian revelation.
Jewish expectation included divine indwelling in the temple and prophetic hope of internalized covenant obedience (Jeremiah 31; Ezekiel 36). The concept of a helper or advocate carried legal and relational connotations.
The Way, the Truth, and the Life, the Father Revealed in the Son, and the Promise of the Spirit
Jesus comforts his troubled disciples by revealing himself as the only way to the Father, the perfect revelation of the Father, the giver of Spirit-enabled life and peace, and the obedient Son who goes to the cross in love for the Father.