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John 14:3
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 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.
Verse John 14:3. _AND IF I GO_] And when I shall have gone and prepared a place for you - opened the kingdom of an eternal glory for your reception, and for the reception of all that shall die in the...
IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE - Most interpreters understand this of heaven, as the special dwelling-place or palace of God; but it may include the universe, as the abode of the omnipresent God. ARE MANY MANSI...
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 COME AGAIN, AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF. The reference is not to Christ's return from the grave, but to. return from heaven, the second coming of the Lord, which is. part of the Christian faith....
THE PROMISE OF GLORY (John 14:1-3)...
"Do not let your heart be distressed. Believe in God and believe in me. There are many abiding-places in my Father's house. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place...
IF. App-118. I WILL COME, &c.. again. am coming, and. will receive you. UNTO. Greek. _pros._ App-104. THAT. in order that. Greek _hires._ YEMAY BE ALSO. ye also may be....
_And if I go_ The -if" does not here imply doubt any more than -when" would have done: but we have -if" and not -when" because it is the _result_of the departure and not the date of it that is emphasi...
ἘᾺΝ ΠΟΡΕΥΘΩ͂. The ἐάν does not imply a doubt; but, as in John 12:32, it is the _result_ rather than the date of the action that is emphasized; hence ‘if,’ not ‘when.’ see on John 12:26. ἜΡΧΟΜΑΙ Κ. ΠΑΡ...
VER 1. LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED: YOU BELIEVE IN GOD, BELIEVE ALSO IN ME. 2. 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. 3....
_IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE -- JOHN 14:1-5:_ Jesus is the way to the Father. Jesus wanted the hearts of the disciples to be filled with faith instead of distressed. It was the desire of the Master that they...
ΈΆΝ (G1437), здесь: когда (Brown; ВВС), ΠΟΡΕΥΘΏ _aor. conj. pass. (dep.) от_ ΠΟΡΕΎΟΜΑΙ (G4198) идти, ΕΤΟΙΜΆΣΩ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΈΤΟΙΜΆΖΩ, _см._ John 14:2. _Conj._ выражает уеловие, которое обязат...
DISCOURSE: 1683 THE COMFORT TO BE DERIVED FROM CHRIST’S ASCENSION John 14:2. _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 WILL COME AGAIN, AND RECEIVE YOU— The idea of a fore-runner is preserved, who, after he had prepared for the entertainment of a guest, used to return, in order to introduce him into the house where...
GOING TO PREPARE A PLACE _Text 14:1-7_ 1 Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; fo...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 14:1-11 Below is an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us: — "Our Lord, who knew what was in man, was well aware of what was passing in the minds of...
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 IF I GO AND PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU, I WILL COME AGAIN - strictly...
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...
I WILL COME AGAIN] viz. at the end of the world....
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,...
AND IF I GO AND PREPARE... — For the form of the expression, comp. Notes on John 12:32, and 1 John 2:28. It does not imply uncertainty, but expresses that the fact is in the region of the future, whic...
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...
to John 14:31 comprise one continuous conversation, introduced by Jesus' announcement (John 13:31-35) of His speedy departure....
Neither will He prepare a place and leave them to find their own way to it. καὶ ἐὰν πορευθῶ … ἦτε. “ _If_ I go”; that is, the commencement of this work as their forerunner was the pledge of its comple...
JESUS, THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE John 14:1-11 As He neared the end, our Lord could speak of little else than the Father. Heaven was His Father's house, where a prepared mansion awaits each of...
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...
(2) And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will (c) come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also. (2) Christ did not go away from us with the intent of forsaki...
_I will come again: not only by rising the third day, but at your death, and at the day of judgment: that where I am, you also may be, and may receive the reward of eternal happiness in my kingdom._...
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...
VER. 3. “ _And if I shall have gone and prepared a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, that where I am, there you may be also._ ” The place being once assured and prepared for the...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 1-11. 1. The discourse which occupies the fourteenth chapter is apparently suggested by the thought expressed in John 13:36: “Thou canst not follow me now...
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. (2) 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. (3) And if...
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...
_SUFFICIENCY OF REVELATION_ ‘If it were not so, I would have told you.’ John 14:2 There is something exceedingly gracious and affecting about this declaration. I. IT IS THE LANGUAGE OF PURE FRIEN...
_HEAVEN_ ‘I go to prepare a place for you.’ John 14:2 Jesus Christ Himself is our home, our furniture, our resting-place all in one. I. WE LIVE IN HIM.—‘Thou art a place to hide me in.’ It was the...
3._And if I go away. _The conditional term, _if_, ought to be interpreted as an adverb of time; as if it had been said, “After that _I have gone away_, _I will return to you again_. ” This _return _mu...
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...
AND IF I GO AND PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU,.... Seeing I am going to prepare, and will prepare a place for you, of the truth of which you may be fully assured: I WILL COME AGAIN; either by death or in p...
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. Ver. 3. _I will come again, &c._] Oh, look up and long for this "cons...
_In my Father's house_ From whence I came, whither I am going, and to which place I am conducting you; _are many mansions_ or apartments (he alludes to the palaces of kings) sufficient to receive the...
COME AGAIN; the perfect fulfilment of this promise will be at Christ's second coming, when the bodies of believers, being raised in glory, will be reunited with their spirits, and they received by Chr...
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...
1-11 Here are three words, upon any of which stress may be laid. Upon the word troubled. Be not cast down and disquieted. The word heart. Let your heart be kept with full trust in God. The word your....
The particle IF in this place denotes no uncertainty of the thing whereof he had before assured them; but in this place hath either the force of although, or after that: When, or after that, I have di...
Origen Against Celsus Book VI s was not at all bowed down by them, but by his contemplation of (divine) things deemed every calamity a light thing, seeing we also have "a great High Priest," who by th...
John 14:3 And G2532 if G1437 go G4198 (G5680) and G2532 prepare G2090 (G5661) place G5117 you...
“In my Father's house are plenty of dwelling places. If it were not so I would have told you. I am going in order to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I am coming again...
THE GUARANTEE OF THEIR ETERNAL FUTURE (JOHN 14:1). He commences by giving them the confidence that their eternal future is secure. Such a certainty would undergird any problems that might arise in th...
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 14:3. AND IF I SHALL HAVE GONE AND PREPARED A PLACE FOR YOU, I COME AGAIN, AND WILL RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF, THAT WHERE I AM THERE YE ALSO MAY BE. All that has preceded these words has rested upo...
IF I GO (εαν πορευθω). Third-class condition (εαν and first aorist passive subjunctive of πορευομα).AND PREPARE (κα ετοιμασω). Same condition and first aorist active subjunctive of the same verb...
RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF This promise of a second advent of Christ is to be distinguished from His return in glory to the earth; it is the first intimation in Scripture of "the day of Christ". (_ See...
John 14:3 With Christ for Ever I. This whole passage is beautifully calculated to place in their right proportions that hope which every one feels of meeting again in heaven those that are gone befor...
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...
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._ Here is a troubled company of disciples, very much cast down, so their Divine Master, full of infinite tenderness,...
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...
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...
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...
John 14:1. _Let not your heart be troubled:_ This is one of those verses that you may read as slowly as you like, and spell out every letter, and find honey in it all. John 14:1. _Ye believe in God,...
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 COME BACK, He speaks here of his Second Coming, when the dead are raised to life, and all who belong to Christ will be taken to the "Wedding Feast in Heaven." Compare 1 Thessalonians 4:17....
_Let not your heart be troubled._ This clause is the true heading to the whole consolatory discourse, for it flows on in one channel of love and ends at last with the words, “Be of good cheer.” LET...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 14:2 In light of the context (Jesus going back to the Father; John 13:1, John 13:3;...
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...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 14:1. The discourse begun at John 13:31 is here continued. Here our Lord not merely answers fully Peter’s question, “Whither goest Thou?” (John 13:36), but speaks...
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...
1 John 3:2; 1 John 3:3; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; 1 Thessalonians 4:17;...
If I go [ε α ν π ο ρ ε υ θ ω]. Poreuomai, go, of going with a definite object. See on 8 21. I will come again [π α λ ι ν ε ρ χ ο μ α ι]. The present tense; I come, so Rev. Not to be limited to the Lor...
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...
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...
Was heaven prepared from eternity or is Jesus still preparing it? PROBLEM: Matthew affirms that heaven was “prepared for you from the foundation of the world” (25:34). But here in John 14:2 Jesus sai...