john 14

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Joh 14:1-31 chiastic structure:

1a.1) Joh 14:1, Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me;

1a.2) Joh 14:2a, In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you;

1a.3) Joh 14:2b-3, I go to prepare a place for you + will come again + receive you to Myself/ you will be where I am;

1a.4) Joh 14:4-6, Where I go + the way you know/ I am the way + truth + life;

1a) Joh 14:4a, And where I go you know;
1b) Joh 14:4b, And the way you know;
central axis) Joh 14:5, Thomas: “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”
2b) Joh 14:6a, Jesus: I am the way, the truth, and the life;
2a) Joh 14:6b, No one comes to the Father except through Me;

1a.5) Joh 14:7-9, He who has seen Me has seen the Father [It is the Father who is in Me];

1a.1) Joh 14:7a, If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also;
1a.2) Joh 14:7b, And from now on you know Him and have seen Him;
central axis) Joh 14:8, Philip: “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us;”
2a.1) Joh 14:9a, Jesus: Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip?
2a.2) Joh 14:9b, He who has seen Me has seen the Father;

1b.1) Joh 14:10-11, The words I speak are not on My own authority;

1a) Joh 14:10a, Do you not believe;
1b) Joh 14:10b, That I am in the Father, and the Father in Me;
central axis) Joh 14:10c, The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority;
2b) Joh 14:10d, But the Father who dwells in Me does the works;
2a) Joh 14:11, Believe Me for the sake of the works themselves;

1b.2) Joh 14:12-14, Holy Spirit’s help + Jesus’ works [Holy Spirit given “because I go to My Father”];

1c) Joh 14:15, If you love Me, keep My commandments;

1d) Joh 14:16, I will pray the Father/ He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever;

1e) Joh 14:17a, The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it sees + knows Him not/ but you know Him;

1f) Joh 14:17b, For He dwells with you + will be in you;

central axis) Joh 14:18a, I will not leave you orphans;

2f) Joh 14:18b, I will come to you;

2e) Joh 14:19a, A little while longer and the world will see Me no more/ but you will see Me;

2d) Joh 14:19b-20, Because I live, you will live/ You will know that I am in My Father + you in Me + I in you;

2c) Joh 14:21-24, He who keeps My commandments loves Me/ He who does not love Me does not keep My words;

2b.1) Joh 14:24b, The word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me;

2b.2) Joh 14:22-26, Holy Spirit’s help + Jesus’ words [Holy Spirit sent by the Father “in My name”];

1a.1) Joh 14:27, My peace I give to you/ Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid;

1a.3) Joh 14:28, I said ‘I am going away and coming back to you/’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice;

1a.2) Joh 14:29, Now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe;

1a.5) Joh 14:30, I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming + he has nothing in Me;

1a.4) Joh 14:31, That the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do.

The structure makes evident, that the way Jesus did not leave us orphans after He ascended to heaven, was through the Holy Spirit. Because the Holy Spirit dwells with us, Jesus has come to us and is in us. The structure also makes evident, that just as the Holy Spirit empowers us to know Jesus’ words that He spoke while with us, He empowers us to do Jesus’ works that He did while with us. The same works, Jesus said. Whoa, He raised the dead! He healed everyone of everything! He cast out demons! He took power over nature and calmed seas and winds! He walked on water! He multiplied food! Yes, those same works. But if the Holy Spirit is still in the earth today, dwelling with His people and bringing to their remembrance all that He has said, is He not still in the earth today, dwelling with His people and doing the same works that Jesus worked? If He is not, then Jesus lied to us – and He did not lie to us! Beloved, compare what you have been told by men, and what you have been told by your Lord, and decide whose word you will believe!