Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

As he often does, today John gives us a more personal lens into things only the

Apostles experienced. John spends several extra chapters telling us about the

final words of Jesus to his followers and he covers a lot of ground

so we'll just hit the high points. Jesus has to go away he says and while they won't be able to follow

him immediately they'll be able to follow him eventually and eternally.

Yesterday he told us where he's heading. In Luke 2-69 he said,

from now on the son of man shall be seated at the right hand of the power of God.

He's going to the right hand of the power of God. He's going to the right hand of the

father and he'll prepare a room for them in his father's house. This idea would be very

familiar to first century Jews. When the son and a family gets married, the family adds another room to the house where the new extended family can live.

So this is Jesus' way of saying, your family now.

The rooms have already been added, and I'm going to get them ready for the arrival of all God's new family members when the time is right.

Jesus also tells them he's the way, the truth, and the life.

In other words, he's the only connection point between them and the Father.

No one can bridge the gap between mankind and God the Father except for Jesus, who is both

fully God and fully man. He's the fulfillment of the Old Testament scriptures and he's the source of

eternal life. He says that seeing him is like seeing the father and according to

Hebrews one and Colossians one the son is the exact imprint of the father.

For him to claim to be the way, truth, and life, that's huge.

When people say Jesus was just a good prophet or a good teacher of morality,

they must not know he says stuff like this.

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