"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. If ye love me, keep my commandments."
In today's quote, Jesus told His Apostles that He must leave to create a means my which the world can be saved and to prepare a place for all of us whom have believed in Him. He assured those who believed that not only would He prepare a place, but that He would return to to take the believers there with Him; "I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."
After Thomas asked to see God, Jesus assured him that he had been with the Father all along seeing that He, Jesus, and God are one in the same. Jesus told Thomas that if he couldn't believe He was the Father by His word, that He should believe because of the miraculous things Jesus had done.
Toward the end of the quote Jesus assured those of us who are saved that whatever we asked of Him, He will provide so that the Father might be glorified through Him.
In the final sentence of the quote Jesus said; "If ye love me, keep my commandments."~
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