I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
I will not leave you comfortless, [ orfanous (G3737)] - 'orphans,' as in the margin; in a bereaved and desolate condition.
I will come to you, [ erchomai (G2064)] - rather, 'I am coming to you;' that is, by the Spirit, since it was His presence that was to make Christ's personal departure from them to be no bereavement.
Verse John 14:18. _I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU COMFORTLESS_] Literally, _orphans_. The original word ορφανος, is by some derived from ορφνος, _obscure, dark_, because, says _Mintert_, an _orphan_ (one depri...
COMFORTLESS - Greek, “orphans.” Jesus here addresses them as children, John 13:33. He says that he would show them the kindness of a parent, and, though he was going away, he would provide for their f...
CHAPTER 14 1. Let not Your Heart be Troubled! (John 14:1 .) 2. I Am in the Father and the Father in Me. (John 14:8 .) 3. The Other Comforter Promised. (John 14:15 .) 4. I Go unto the Father. ...
John 14:1 takes up the thoughts of the previous paragraph, not of the last verse. The thoughts of separation and treachery had led to perplexity, if not despair. Jesus bids them trust God and Himself....
WILL NOT LEAVE YOU COMFORTLESS. The word in the Greek is _orphaned._ It is applied to childless parents, or fatherless children, or any one bereaved. The term "desolate" used in the Revision probably...
THE PROMISE OF GLORY (John 14:1-3)...
"I will not leave you forlorn. I am coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me; but you will see me because I will be alive and you too will be alive. In that day you will know t...
COMFORTLESS. orphans. Greek. _or phanos._ Occurs only here and James 1:27. WILL COME. am coming. As in John 14:3. TO. Greek. _pros._ App-104....
_comfortless_ Rather (with Wiclif) FATHERLESS, as the word is translated James 1:27, the only other place in the N.T. where it occurs; or (with the margin) _orphans_, the very word used in the Greek....
ὈΡΦΑΝΟΎΣ. DESOLATE, or (with Wiclif) FATHERLESS, as in James 1:27, the only other place in N.T. where it occurs. ‘Comfortless’ gives unfair support to ‘Comforter’: there is no connexion between ὀρφανό...
VER 18. I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU COMFORTLESS: I WILL COME TO YOU. 19. YET A LITTLE WHILE, AND THE WORLD SEES ME NO MORE: BUT YOU SEE ME; BECAUSE I LIVE, YOU SHALL LIVE ALSO. 20. AT THAT DAY YOU SHALL KNOW...
_LOVE LEADS TO OBEDIENCE -- JOHN 14:15-24:_ Now we come to recognize the path by which we enjoy God's blessings. Jesus said, "If you love me, you will do as I command you." "He that hath my commandmen...
ΆΦΉΣΩ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΆΦΊΗΜΙ (G863) покидать, оставлять, ΟΡΦΑΝΌΣ (G3737) сирота; относится к детям, оставшимся без отца, и ученикам, лишившимся учителя (Barrett). Используется как приложение с _а...
I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU COMFORTLESS:— 'Ορφανους, _orphans,_ He had called them his _dear children,_— τεκνια,— John 13:33 of the last chapter. "Encourage yourselves therefore with the pleasing expectation...
GOING TO SEND THE STRENGTHENER AND REVEALER _Text 14:15-24_ 15 If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 14:12-20 Below is an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— At first reading there does not appear to be much direct connection between the several...
34 As our Lord is about to leave His beloved disciples, He compresses His ministry into one new precept-love. That was to be their law and their life and make them a light in the world. This should ch...
THE COMFORTER 1-31. The mansions in heaven. The mission of the Comforter. This great discourse, which is not easily susceptible of formal subdivision, deals with five main subjects: (1) the heavenly...
COMFORTLESS] lit. 'orphans.' I WILL COME TO YOU] invisibly and spiritually in the coming of the Spirit....
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 14 JESUS IS THE WAY TO GOD THE *FATHER 14:1-14 V1 Jesus said to his *disciples, ‘Do not worry! Trust God. And trust me,...
I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU COMFORTLESS. — Better with the margin, _I will not leave you orphans,_ which exactly represents the Greek word. “Comfortless” is unfortunate, as it suggests a connection with “Com...
VIII. _ JESUS ANNOUNCES HIS DEPARTURE._ "When therefore he was gone out, Jesus saith, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him; and God shall glorify Him in Himself, and straightw...
X. _ THE FATHER SEEN IN CHRIST._ "Philip saith unto Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so longtime with you, and dost thou not know Me, Philip? he th...
to John 14:31 comprise one continuous conversation, introduced by Jesus' announcement (John 13:31-35) of His speedy departure....
Great as was the promise of this other helper, this spirit of truth, it did not seem to compensate for the departure of Jesus. “Another,” any other, was unable to fill the blank; it was Himself they c...
_The third encouragement: that Jesus Himself will come to them and make Himself known to them_....
THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH John 14:12-24 There is no adequate translation for the word _Paraclete._ It may be rendered “interpreter,” “comforter,” “advocate,” but no one word suffices. The Greek means “one...
There is no real break between the end of chapter 13 and beginning of chapter 14. Therefore continuing, while now including all the disciples, He charged them not to let their heart be troubled. He th...
CHAPTER 23 THE VALEDICTORY SERMON John 14-16. Now that the Passover meal has been enjoyed, and that celebrated Mosaic institution totally eclipsed by bloody Calvary, normally verified and abolished f...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 15-24. 1. The meaning of the word παράκλητος has been much discussed. It is evidently founded upon the verb παρακαλεῖν as a verbal adjective, and the fund...
“ _I will not leave you orphans: I come again to you._ 19. _Yet a little while, and the world shall see me no more; but you shall see me; because I live, you shall live also._ ” The term _orphans_ is...
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; (17) Even the spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
18._I will not have you orphans. _This passage shows what men are, and what they can do, when they have been deprived of the protection of the Spirit. They are _orphans_, exposed to every kind of frau...
The Lord now begins to discourse with them in view of His departure. He was going where they could not come. To human sight they would be left alone upon the earth. It is to the sense of this apparent...
I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU COMFORTLESS,.... Gr. "orphans", or "fatherless". Christ stands in the relation of a Father to his people, and they are his children, his spiritual seed and offspring; and so the d...
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Ver. 18. _I will not leave you comfortless_] Orphans, or darkling, ορφανους _ab_ ορφνη, _tenebrae._ I your Lord am taken indeed from your head fo...
_I will not leave you comfortless_ Greek, ορφανους, orphans: a word elegantly applied to those who have lost any dear friend; _I will come to you_ By my spiritual presence. The Greek, ερχομαι, is lite...
COMFORTLESS; literally, orphans, bereft of my presence, as children of the presence of their father. COME TO YOU; spiritually, through the Comforter....
I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU COMFORTLESS; I WILL COME TO YOU....
Further encouragement:...
MINISTRY OF ENCOURAGEMENT CENTERED IN CHRIST PERSONALLY (vs.1-6) Had the Lord spoken the last words of chapter 13 with the object of discouraging Peter? By no means. For His next words are "Let not y...
COMFORTLESS: Or, orphans...
18-24 Christ promises that he would continue his care of his disciples. I will not leave you orphans, or fatherless, for though I leave you, yet I leave you this comfort, I will come to you. I will c...
COMFORTLESS; the word in the Greek is, orphans, persons without father and mother, who for the most part are the most comfortless persons; therefore it is translated _comfortless:_ Christ hath a care,...
A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity And because the Lord was about to depart to the heavens, He gave the Paraclete out of necessity to the disciples; so as not to leave them in any degree o...
John 14:18 will G863 not G3756 leave G863 (G5692) you G5209 orphans G3737 come G2064 (G5736) to...
“I will not leave you as orphans. I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world sees me no more, but you see me. Because I live, you will live as well. In that day you will know that I am in my...
THEY MUST KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS AND HE WILL RESPOND BY GIVING THEM THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH FOR THEIR HELP AND STRENGTHENING (JOHN 14:15). Central to what the disciples are to receive is their obedience. T...
2). THE DEMANDS THAT HE MAKES AND THE PROVISION THAT HE IS MAKING FOR THEIR FULFILMENT (JOHN 14:12). Jesus now stresses what He is expecting from His disciples and assures them that full provision has...
Judas has now gone out; Jesus is alone with the disciples whom He loved; and the last disturbing element has been removed from the midst of the little company. But the hour is come when the servants m...
John 14:18. I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU DESOLATE: I COME TO YOU. The disciples were the ‘little children' of Jesus (chap. John 13:33), and He may therefore well speak to them as a father. Not from Pentecost,...
I WILL NOT LEAVE (ουκ αφησω). Future active of αφιημ, to send away, to leave behind.DESOLATE (ορφανους). Old word (ορφος, Latin _orbus_), bereft of parents, and of parents bereft of children. Comm...
John 14:16 I. The Holy Spirit is promised as another Comforter. This surely indicates, not a new office to be discharged, but an old one, or one already subsisting, to be discharged by a new person. T...
John 14:15. _If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever, Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world can...
This is a chapter which I suppose most of us know by heart, full of comfort, a very river of delight. Remember that our Lord spoke this to his own beloved ones to the inner circle. It was not address...
We have often read this chapter, both in our private meditations, and at our public worship; but we cannot read it too often. It is sweet as honey and the honeycomb. It contains the very quintessence...
I suppose that many of you know this chapter by heart. I notice that, in all old Christians' Bibles, this leaf is well worn, sometimes worn out. We have here our Lord's homely talk to his disciples; i...
John 14:1. _Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me._ Here is a troubled company of disciples, very much cast down, so their Divine Master, full of infinite tenderness,...
Let us read that well-known and most blessed chapter, John 14:1, which so clearly shows our Saviour's tender consideration for the comfort of his people, lest the great grief excited in them by his im...
John 14:1. _Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me._ You will be troubled; that cannot be helped. But let not your heart be troubled. You are like a ship, and all the w...
John 14:15. _If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;_ Is it not very sweet to think that the Spi...
John 14:15. _If ye love me, keep my commandments._ We cannot expect the Holy Spirit to dwell with us unless we are obedient to the commands of Christ. Our Saviour here tells us much about the spirit...
CONTENTS: Jesus foretells His second coming and promises the Holy Spirit to believers. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Thomas, disciples, Philip, Judas. CONCLUSION: Jesus is the way let us foll...
John 14:1. _Let not your heart be troubled._ Our Saviour having denounced Judas as a traitor, and plainly spoken of his own departure out of the world, left no jewish hope of a temporal kingdom; sorro...
I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU ALONE. [Orphans.] He will ask the Father to send _another Helper._ BUT YOU WILL SEE ME. He uses _the present continuous verb_ which implies a _continual seeing._ He does not speak...
_I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you_ NOT LEFT COMFORTLESS The word “comfortless” means “bereft. ” We have adopted the Greek word, and have gradually limited it to the severest kind...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 14:18 I WILL COME TO YOU probably means Jesus will appear to the disciples after his resurrection (chs. John 20:1)....
1-31 CHAPTER 14 _Let not your heart_, &c. Christ saw that the minds of His disciples were troubled, _i.e_. anxious and sorrowful, because He had foretold them that His own departure and Passion, thro...
_I will not leave you orphans_, &c. Forasmuch as Christ called His disciples _sons_, He now says to them,. _will not leave you orphans_, i.e., without a Father. Because, although I am going away from...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 14:15. KEEP MY COMMANDMENT.—“Ask in My name. Keep My,” etc. These go together. We can only truly pray in His name when we _keep,_ etc. John 14:16. ἐγὼ ἐρωτήσω.—T...
EXPOSITION JOHN 14:1 It is not necessary to follow Codex D and some of the versions, and here introduce into the text καὶ εἶπεν τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ._ _It is enough that the awful warning to Pe...
Jesus said, Let not your heart be troubled (John 14:1): Now, they were troubled because He had been saying these things. "I'm going to go away; where I go you cannot come." He's been talking about H...
2 Corinthians 1:2; 2 Thessalonians 2:16; Hebrews 2:18; Hosea 14:3;...
Leave [α φ η σ ω]. See on 4 3. Comfortless [ο ρ φ α ν ο υ ς]. Literally, bereft or orphans. Only here and James 1:27, where it is rendered fatherless. Compare my little children (xiii. 33). "He hath n...
THE COMFORT CHAPTER John 14:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We remember the statement, "Never man spake like this Man." These words were true from many viewpoints. However, of all the wonderful things which ou...
THE COMFORT CHAPTER John 14:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS How wonderful it is that our Lord Jesus Christ could give forth such words of comfort in the hour when He, Himself, was hastening on toward the angu...
I will not leave you orphans — A word that is elegantly applied to those who have lost any dear friend. I come to you — What was certainly and speedily to be, our Lord speaks of as if it were already....
Here observe, 1. The condition which the disciples were in upon the account of Christ's removal from them, and that was sad and comfortless: fatherless or orphans, as the word signifies. Learn hence,...