John 14:1–6 — In My Father’s House Are Many Mansions

King James Version · hope

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 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. 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. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Why families choose it

The classic gospel reading of Christian funerals: a promise of prepared rooms and a kept place, spoken the night before a death. Ministers reach for it because it addresses the congregation directly — “let not your heart be troubled” is an instruction the day itself keeps contradicting, gently repeated.

Reading it aloud

The opening line is the whole reading in miniature — deliver it to the family, not the page. Thomas’s question is a real question; let it sound like one. This reading also sits well split across two voices, the question and the answer.

In the programme, list it in the order of service as “Scripture Reading — John 14:1–6” with the reader’s name beside it. The full text is public domain and may be printed on the life-story or back page.

Often read alongside: Psalm 23 Revelation 21:1–7 Romans 8:31–39

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