Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father — this is perhaps John's most stunning promise: believers will do Jesus' works, and even greater ones. The greatness of the works believers will do flows from Jesus' ascension (because I am going to the Father); once Jesus returns to the Father, he is no longer geographically localized but universally present through the Spirit in all believers. The works in view are not merely miracles but the gathering of disciples, the transformation of hearts, the building of communities of love that spread across the world.

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