There Jesus said to them, "You will all desert me, for it is written in
the scriptures: 'I will smite the shepherd and the sheep will be
scattered.' But after I have risen, I will go before you into Galilee."
Peter said to him, "Though all others should desert you, I will not."
Jesus said to him, "Indeed I tell you, this very night before the cock
crows you will deny three times that you know me." But Peter said more
emphatically, "Even if I have to die with you, I will never deny you."
And all of them said the same.
JESUS ENCOURAGES HIS FRIENDS AND HELPERS
Jesus said, "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe
also in me. In my Father's house are many homes; if it were not so, I
would have told you, for I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go
and prepare a place for you, I will return and take you to be with me
that where I am, you may be also; and you know the way to the place
where I am going."
Thomas said to him, "Master, we do not know where you are going; how
then can we know the way?" Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth,
and the life; no man comes to the Father except through me. If you had
learned to know me, you would have known my Father also; from now on you
know him and have seen him."
Philip said to him, "Master, let us see the Father and we will be
satisfied." Jesus said to him, "Have I been all this time with you and
yet you do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father;
then how can you say, 'Let us see the Father'? Do you not believe that I
am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I speak do not
come from me but from the Father who lives in me. Believe me, that I am
in the Father and the Father in me, or else believe me because of the
work itself. I say to you, he who believes in me will do the work which
I do and still greater works than these, for I go to the Father. And
whatever you shall ask in my name I will do, that the Father may be
glorified through the Son. If you ask anything in my name, I will do it.
"If you love me you will keep my commands, and I shall ask the Father
and he will give you another Helper to be with you forever, even the
Spirit of truth.
"In a little while the world will see me no more; but you shall see me,
because I live and you shall live also. He who has my commands and obeys
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 reveal myself to him.
"I have told you all this while I am still with you; but the Helper, 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.
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