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Gospel Reading - Lord, show us the Father

¹“Let not your heart be troubled. You are trusting God, now trust in me. ^2-3There are many homes up there where my Father lives, and I am going to prepare them for your coming. When everything is ready, then I will come and get you, so that you can always be with me where I am. If this weren’t so, I would tell you plainly. ⁴And you know where I am going and how to get there.”

⁵“No, we don’t,” Thomas said. “We haven’t any idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

⁶Jesus told him, “I am the Way — yes, and the Truth and the Life. No one can get to the Father except by means of me. ⁷If you had known who I am, then you would have known who my Father is. From now on you know him — and have seen him!”

⁸Philip said, “Sir, show us the Father and we will be satisfied.”

⁹Jesus replied, “Don’t you even yet know who I am, Philip, even after all this time I have been with you? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father! So why are you asking to see him? ¹⁰Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I say are not my own but are from my Father who lives in me. And he does his work through me. ¹¹Just believe it — that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or else believe it because of the mighty miracles you have seen me do.

^12-13“In solemn truth I tell you, anyone believing in me shall do the same miracles I have done, and even greater ones, because I am going to be with the Father. You can ask him for anything, using my name, and I will do it, for this will bring praise to the Father because of what I, the Son, will do for you.