Upper Room Discourse

Date: 0030-04-04 (1D)

Locations: Jerusalem

Participants: Jesus

Scripture References

• John 13:31 — Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
• John 13:32 — If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
• John 13:33 — Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.
• John 13:34 — A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
• John 13:35 — By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
• John 13:36 — Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.
• John 13:37 — Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.
• John 13:38 — Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.
• John 14:1 — Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
• John 14:2 — 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.
• John 14:3 — 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.
• John 14:4 — And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
• John 14:5 — Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
• John 14:6 — Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
• John 14:7 — If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
• John 14:8 — Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
• John 14:9 — 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?
• John 14:10 — 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.
• John 14:11 — Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
• John 14:12 — 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.
• John 14:13 — And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
• John 14:14 — If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
• John 14:15 — If ye love me, keep my commandments.
• John 14:16 — And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
• John 14:17 — Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
• John 14:18 — I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
• John 14:19 — Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
• John 14:20 — At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
• John 14:21 — He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
• John 14:22 — Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
• John 14:23 — Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
• John 14:24 — He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.
• John 14:25 — These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
• John 14:26 — But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
• John 14:27 — Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
• John 14:28 — Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
• John 14:29 — And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
• John 14:30 — Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
• John 14:31 — But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
• John 15:1 — I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
• John 15:2 — Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
• John 15:3 — Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
• John 15:4 — Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
• John 15:5 — I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
• John 15:6 — If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
• John 15:7 — If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
• John 15:8 — Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
• John 15:9 — As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
• John 15:10 — If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
• John 15:11 — These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
• John 15:12 — This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
• John 15:13 — Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
• John 15:14 — Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
• John 15:15 — Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
• John 15:16 — Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
• John 15:17 — These things I command you, that ye love one another.
• John 15:18 — If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
• John 15:19 — If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
• John 15:20 — Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
• John 15:21 — But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
• John 15:22 — If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
• John 15:23 — He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
• John 15:24 — If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
• John 15:25 — But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
• John 15:26 — But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
• John 15:27 — And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
• John 16:1 — These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
• John 16:2 — They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
• John 16:3 — And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
• John 16:4 — But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.
• John 16:5 — But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
• John 16:6 — But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
• John 16:7 — Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
• John 16:8 — And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
• John 16:9 — Of sin, because they believe not on me;
• John 16:10 — Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
• John 16:11 — Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
• John 16:12 — I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
• John 16:13 — Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
• John 16:14 — He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
• John 16:15 — All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
• John 16:16 — A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.
• John 16:17 — Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?
• John 16:18 — They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.
• John 16:19 — Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me?
• John 16:20 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
• John 16:21 — A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
• John 16:22 — And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
• John 16:23 — And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
• John 16:24 — Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
• John 16:25 — These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.
• John 16:26 — At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:
• John 16:27 — For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
• John 16:28 — I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
• John 16:29 — His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.
• John 16:30 — Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.
• John 16:31 — Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?
• John 16:32 — Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
• John 16:33 — These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
• John 17:1 — These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
• John 17:2 — As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
• John 17:3 — And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
• John 17:4 — I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
• John 17:5 — And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
• John 17:6 — I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
• John 17:7 — Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
• John 17:8 — For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
• John 17:9 — I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
• John 17:10 — And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
• John 17:11 — And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
• John 17:12 — While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
• John 17:13 — And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
• John 17:14 — I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
• John 17:15 — I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
• John 17:16 — They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
• John 17:17 — Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
• John 17:18 — As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
• John 17:19 — And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
• John 17:20 — Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
• John 17:21 — That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
• John 17:22 — And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
• John 17:23 — I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
• John 17:24 — Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
• John 17:25 — O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
• John 17:26 — And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

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