John 14:1 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) [Jesus continued], “Do not allow your hearts to be upset. You should believe in God, and believe in me also. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition DO NOT let your hearts be troubled (distressed, agitated). You believe in and adhere to and trust in and rely on God; believe in and adhere to and trust in and rely also on Me. American Standard Version (1901) Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me. Common English Bible “Don’t be troubled. Trust in God. Trust also in me. Catholic Public Domain Version "Do not let your heart be troubled. You believe in God. Believe in me also. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version LET not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me. |
When Jesus saw her and her Jewish friends, who had come with her, crying, He felt distressed in His spirit and [visibly] troubled [Note: This last word means to shake with emotion, and seems to have been caused by His deep sympathy for these grieving people],
“Now my heart is distressed; and what shall I say [i.e., to God]? ‘Father, bring me safely through this time.’ But, this is the reason I came [to earth]; to [go through] such a time.
Then Jesus spoke out in a loud voice, “The person who believes in me, does not [only] believe in me, but [also] in Him who sent me [i.e., God].
I am telling you this now, [even] before it happens, so that when it does happen, you will believe that I am [the Messiah].
Up until now you have not asked for anything in my name. [So now] ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be complete.
And they will do these things because they have not known [either] the Father or me.
And now that I have told you these things, your hearts are full of grief.
so that everyone will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The person who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
And this is what [else] my Father wants: That every person who sees the Son [i.e., with the eye of faith] and believes in Him should have never ending life, and I will raise him up [from the dead] on the last day.”
So instead, you people should [now] forgive and comfort him, in order that such a person does not become overwhelmed with extreme grief.
For this reason also, since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all of the saints [i.e., God’s holy people],
we request that you people do not become shaken up in your mind, nor alarmed, either by a spirit [i.e., by some prophetic prediction], or by a report, or by a letter supposedly from us, that the day of the Lord [i.e., when Jesus returns] has already come.
[It is] through Christ, whom God raised from the dead and honored, that you people have become believers in God, so that your faith and hope could rest in God.