"Do not let your hearts be troubled.
You have faith in God; have faith also in me."
Jesus was with his disciples at the Last Supper. Something terrible was about to happen. They could feel it. But Jesus reminds them to have faith in God. They are in good hands--in the hands of a good Father.
I am going to prepare a place for you.
Jesus is ascending to his Father in heaven. He will open the gates of heaven. Thus, he descended to the dead to fetch them and bring them home. Of course, time ceases to exist in the after-life. There is no before nor after. There is eternity which means it always "now".
I will come back again and take you to myself,
so that where I am you also may be.
The Parousia. Jesus will come back at the end of time. The general resurrection will take place. But the transformation is not be limited to us. The whole creation will be re-created.
I am the way and the truth and the life.
Jesus is the way because only through Jesus can we reach heaven. He is the truth because in Jesus we find the answers to the deepest questions of man. He is the life because he gives us a new kind of existence. Not merely human and earthly but spiritual and divine as well. After all we have become children of God.
Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.
God is spirit. He has no physical form. The Father has no face. But Jesus is true God and true man. In him God has acquired a face. In a real sense he who has seen Jesus has seen God.
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