John 14

Io 14.1Nōn turbētur cor vestrum. Crēditis in Deum, et in mē crēdite.

Your heart is not to be thrown into turmoil. You believe in God, believe in me also.

Note. Nōn turbētur: jussive subjunctive in the third person, 'let your heart not be troubled'. Crēditis … crēdite: the first could be indicative or imperative; the Latin keeps both forms the same.

Io 14.2In domō Patris meī mānsiōnēs multae sunt; sī quōminus dīxissem vōbīs: quia vādō parāre vōbīs locum.

In the house of my Father there are many dwelling places; if it were otherwise, I would have said to you: because I go to prepare a place for you.

Note. mānsiōnēs: 'dwelling places', from maneō 'stay'. sī quō minus, dīxissem: 'if it were otherwise, I would have told you', a past contrary-to-fact condition. The edition prints quominus as one word.

Io 14.3Et sī abierō, et praeparāverō vōbīs locum, iterum veniō, et accipiam vōs ad mēipsum: ut ubi sum ego, et vōs sītis.

And if I go away and prepare a place for you, I come again and will take you to myself: so that where I am, you also may be.

Note. sī abierō, et praeparāverō: future perfects. venio: present for future, 'I am coming'. accipiam vōs ad mēipsum: 'I will take you to myself'.

Io 14.4Et quō ego vādō scītis, et viam scītis.

And where I am going you know, and the road you know.

Io 14.5Dīcit eī Thōmās: Domine, nescīmus quō vādis: et quōmodo possumus viam scīre?

Thomas says to him: Lord, we do not know where you are going; and how can we know the road?

Io 14.6Dīcit eī Iēsus: Ego sum via, et vēritās, et vīta. Nēmō venit ad Patrem, nisi per mē.

Jesus says to him: I am the road, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Note. Ego sum via, et vēritās, et vīta: three nominatives in predicate position. nisi per mē: 'except through me'.

Io 14.7Sī cognōvissētis mē, et Patrem meum utique cognōvissētis: et āmodo cognōscētis eum, et vīdistis eum.

If you had known me, you would surely have known my Father also: and from now on you will know him, and you have seen him.

Note. Sī cognōvissētis …, cognōvissētis: past contrary-to-fact condition, pluperfect subjunctive in both halves. utique: 'certainly'.

Io 14.8Dīcit eī Philippus: Domine, ostende nōbīs Patrem, et sufficit nōbīs.

Philip says to him: Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.

Io 14.9Dīcit eī Iēsus: Tantō tempore vōbīscum sum, et nōn cognōvistis mē? Philippe, quī videt mē, videt et Patrem. Quōmodo tū dīcis: Ostende nōbīs Patrem?

Jesus says to him: So long a time I am with you, and you have not known me? Philip, he who sees me, sees the Father also. How do you say: Show us the Father?

Note. Tantō tempore: ablative of time 'throughout which', used in Late Latin where classical Latin has the accusative (tantum tempus). Quōmodo tū dīcis: 'how is it that you say?'.

Io 14.10Nōn crēditis quia ego in Patre, et Pater in mē est? Verba quae ego loquor vōbīs, ā mēipsō nōn loquor. Pater autem in mē manēns, ipse fēcit opera.

Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words which I speak to you, I do not speak from myself. But the Father, remaining in me, he himself has done the works.

Note. ā mēipsō: 'from myself'. manēns: present participle, 'remaining'. ipse fēcit opera: 'he himself has done the works'.

Io 14.11Nōn crēditis quia ego in Patre, et Pater in mē est?

Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me?

Note. This verse repeats the opening question of the previous verse. In the digital text used here the verse break comes one sentence late: 'alioquin propter opera ipsa crēdite' (the start of the next unit) belongs to this verse (14.11) in printed editions, and verse 14.12 begins at 'Amen, amen'.

Io 14.12aliōquīn propter opera ipsa crēdite. Āmēn, āmēn dīcō vōbīs, quī crēdit in mē, opera quae ego faciō, et ipse faciet, et maiōra hōrum faciet: quia ego ad Patrem vādō.

Otherwise, believe on account of the works themselves. Amen, amen I say to you, he who believes in me, the works which I do, he also will do, and greater than these he will do: because I go to the Father.

Note. alioquin: 'otherwise'. propter opera ipsa: 'because of the works themselves'. maiōra hōrum: genitive of comparison after a comparative, a Greek-influenced construction (classical Latin would use the ablative hīs).

Io 14.13Et quodcumque petieritis Patrem in nōmine meō, hoc faciam: ut glōrificētur Pater in Fīliō.

And whatever you ask the Father in my name, this I will do: so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Note. quodcumque petieritis Patrem: petō with the accusative of the person asked. in nōmine meō: 'in my name'. ut glōrificētur: purpose clause.

Io 14.14Sī quid petieritis mē in nōmine meō, hoc faciam.

If you ask me anything in my name, this I will do.

Note. Sī quid: quid after sī is indefinite, 'anything'.

Io 14.15Sī dīligitis mē, mandāta mea servāte:

If you love me, keep my commands:

Note. mandāta mea servāte: plural imperative.

Io 14.16et ego rogābō Patrem, et alium Paraclītum dabit vōbīs, ut maneat vōbīscum in aeternum,

and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, so that he may stay with you for ever,

Note. Paraclītum: Greek paraklētos, 'one called to someone's side', an advocate or helper; John uses it of the Holy Spirit. ut maneat: purpose clause.

Io 14.17Spīritum vēritātis, quem mundus nōn potest accipere, quia nōn videt eum, nec scit eum: vōs autem cognōscētis eum, quia apud vōs manēbit, et in vōbīs erit.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see him nor know him: you, however, will know him, because he will stay beside you, and will be in you.

Note. Spīritum vēritātis: in apposition to Paraclītum in the previous verse. nec videt eum, nec scit eum: neque … neque.

Io 14.18Nōn relinquam vōs orphanōs: veniam ad vōs.

I will not leave you as orphans: I will come to you.

Note. Nōn relinquam vōs orphanōs: orphanōs is predicative, 'I will not leave you (as) orphans'.

Io 14.19Adhūc modicum, et mundus mē iam nōn videt. Vōs autem vidētis mē: quia ego vīvō, et vōs vīvētis.

Still a little while, and the world no longer sees me. You, however, see me: because I live, you too will live.

Note. quia ego vīvō, et vōs vīvētis: et here means 'also'.

Io 14.20In illō diē vōs cognōscētis quia ego sum in Patre meō, et vōs in mē, et ego in vōbīs.

On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

Io 14.21Quī habet mandāta mea, et servat ea: ille est quī dīligit mē. Quī autem dīligit mē, dīligētur ā Patre meō: et ego dīligam eum, et manifestābō eī mēipsum.

He who has my commands and keeps them: that is the one who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father: and I will love him, and will make myself known to him.

Note. ille est quī dīligit mē: ille resumes the long subject, 'that is the one who loves me'. manifestābō eī mēipsum: 'I will show myself to him'.

Io 14.22Dīcit eī Iūdās, nōn ille Iscariōtēs: Domine, quid factum est, quia manifestātūrus es nōbīs tēipsum, et nōn mundō?

Judas, not that Iscariot, says to him: Lord, what has happened, that you are about to make yourself known to us, and not to the world?

Note. Iūdās, nōn ille Iscariōtēs: another disciple named Judas, not Iscariot. quid factum est, quia …? 'what has happened, that …?' manifestātūrus es: future participle + es, 'you are going to reveal'.

Io 14.23Respondit Iēsus, et dīxit eī: Sī quis dīligit mē, sermōnem meum servābit, et Pater meus dīliget eum, et ad eum veniēmus, et mānsiōnem apud eum faciēmus;

Jesus answered and said to him: If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our dwelling with him;

Note. mānsiōnem apud eum faciēmus: 'we will make our dwelling with him', echoing the mānsiōnēs of 14.2.

Io 14.24quī nōn dīligit mē, sermōnēs meōs nōn servat. Et sermōnem, quem audīstis, nōn est meus: sed eius quī mīsit mē, Patris.

he who does not love me does not keep my words. And the word which you have heard is not mine, but his who sent me, the Father's.

Note. Et sermōnem, quem audīstis: the noun is attracted into the case of the relative pronoun; we would expect nominative sermō. Patris: genitive in apposition to eius, 'of him who sent me, (that is) the Father'.

Io 14.25Haec locūtus sum vōbīs apud vōs manēns.

These things I have spoken to you while staying with you.

Note. manēns: present participle, 'while staying'.

Io 14.26Paraclītus autem Spīritus Sānctus, quem mittet Pater in nōmine meō, ille vōs docēbit omnia, et suggeret vōbīs omnia quaecumque dīxerō vōbīs.

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all things whatever I have said to you.

Note. ille vōs docēbit omnia: doceō takes two accusatives, the person and the thing. suggeret: 'will bring to mind, will remind'. quaecumque dīxerō: future perfect.

Io 14.27Pācem relinquō vōbīs, pācem meam dō vōbīs: nōn quōmodo mundus dat, ego dō vōbīs. Nōn turbētur cor vestrum, neque formīdet.

Peace I leave to you, my peace I give to you: not as the world gives, do I give to you. Your heart is not to be thrown into turmoil, nor to be afraid.

Note. Pācem relinquō vōbīs: farewell words; 'peace' (Hebrew shalom) was the common greeting and blessing. nōn quōmodo mundus dat: 'not in the way the world gives'. formīdet: from the verb formīdō, -āre, 'be afraid'.

Io 14.28Audīstis quia ego dīxī vōbīs: Vādō, et veniō ad vōs. Sī dīligerētis mē, gaudērētis utique, quia vādō ad Patrem: quia Pater maior mē est.

You have heard that I said to you: I am going away, and I am coming to you. If you loved me, you would surely rejoice, because I am going to the Father: because the Father is greater than I.

Note. Sī dīligerētis mē, gaudērētis: present contrary-to-fact condition, imperfect subjunctive in both halves. maior mē: ablative of comparison.

Io 14.29Et nunc dīxī vōbīs priusquam fīat: ut cum factum fuerit, crēdātis.

And now I have told you before it happens: so that when it has happened, you may believe.

Io 14.30Iam nōn multa loquar vōbīscum: venit enim prīnceps mundī huius, et in mē nōn habet quidquam.

I will no longer speak many things with you: for the ruler of this world is coming, and in me he has nothing.

Note. nōn multa loquar: future. venit: present, 'is coming'. in mē nōn habet quidquam: 'he has no hold on me'.

Io 14.31Sed ut cognōscat mundus quia dīligō Patrem, et sīcut mandātum dedit mihi Pater, sīc faciō. Surgite, eāmus hinc.

But so that the world may know that I love the Father, and just as the Father gave me command, so I do. Rise, let us go from here.

Note. ut cognōscat mundus: the main clause is left unstated ('but (I go) so that the world may know'). Surgite, eāmus hinc: imperative and hortatory subjunctive, 'get up, let us go from here'. The discourse nevertheless continues in chapters 15–17, which many scholars read as later additions to an earlier ending here.