John 14:1
Let not your heart be troubled — At my departure. Believe — This is the sum of all his discourse, which is urged till they did believe, John 16:30. And then our Lord prays and departs.... [ Continue Reading ]
Let not your heart be troubled — At my departure. Believe — This is the sum of all his discourse, which is urged till they did believe, John 16:30. And then our Lord prays and departs.... [ Continue Reading ]
In my Father's house are many mansions — Enough to receive both the holy angels, and your predecessors in the faith, and all that now believe, and a great multitude, which no man can number.... [ Continue Reading ]
The way — Of faith, holiness, sufferings.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thomas saith — Taking him in a gross sense.... [ Continue Reading ]
To the question concerning the way, he answers, I am the way. To the question concerning knowledge, he answers, I am the truth. To the question whither, I am the life. The first is treated of in this verse; the second, John 14:7; the third, John 14:18, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye have known — Ye have begun to know him.... [ Continue Reading ]
I am in the Father — The words that I speak, &c. — That is, I am one with the Father, in essence, in speaking, and in acting.... [ Continue Reading ]
Believe me — On my own word, because I am God. The works — This respects not merely the miracles themselves, but his sovereign, Godlike way of performing them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Greater works than these shall he do — So one apostle wrought miracles merely by his shadow, Acts 5:15; another by handkerchiefs carried from his body, Acts 19:12; and all spake with various tongues. But the converting one sinner is a greater work than all these. Because I go to my Father — To send... [ Continue Reading ]
If ye love me, keep my commandments — Immediately after faith he exhorts to love and good works.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will ask the Father — John 14:21, shows the connection between this and the preceding verses. And he will give you another Comforter — The Greek word signifies also an advocate, instructer, or encourager. Another — For Christ himself was one. To remain with you for ever — With you, and your fo... [ Continue Reading ]
The Spirit of truth — Who has, reveals, testifies, and defends the truth as it is in Jesus. Whom the world — All who do not love or fear God, cannot receive, because it seeth him not — Having no spiritual senses, no internal eye to discern him; nor consequently knoweth him. He shall be in you — As a... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
But ye see me — That is, ye shall certainly see me. Because I live, ye shall live also — Because I am the living One in my Divine nature, and shall rise again in my human nature, and live for ever in heaven: therefore ye shall live the life of faith and love on earth, and hereafter the life of glory... [ Continue Reading ]
At that day — When ye see me after my resurrection; but more eminently at the day of pentecost.... [ Continue Reading ]
He that hath my commandments — Written in his heart. I will manifest myself to him — More abundantly.... [ Continue Reading ]
Jesus answered — Because ye love and obey me, and they do not, therefore I will reveal myself to you, and not to them. My Father will love him — The more any man loves and obeys, the more God will love him. And we will come to him, and make our abode with him — Which implies such a large manifestati... [ Continue Reading ]
In my name — For my sake, in my room, and as my agent. He will teach you all things — Necessary for you to know. Here is a clear promise to the apostles, and their successors in the faith, that the Holy Ghost will teach them all that truth which is needful for their salvation.... [ Continue Reading ]
Peace I leave with you — Peace in general; peace with God and with your own consciences. My peace — In particular; that peace which I enjoy, and which I create, I give — At this instant. Not as the world giveth — Unsatisfying unsettled, transient; but filling the soul with constant, even tranquillit... [ Continue Reading ]
God the Father is greater than I — As he was man. As God, neither is greater nor less than the other.... [ Continue Reading ]
I have told you — Of my going and return.... [ Continue Reading ]
The prince of this world is coming — To make his grand assault. But he hath nothing in me — No right, no claim, or power. There is no guilt in me, to give him power over me; no corruption to take part with his temptation.... [ Continue Reading ]
But I suffer him thus to assault me, Because it is the Father's commission to me, John 10:18. To convince the world of my love to the Father, in being obedient unto death, Philippians 2:8. Arise, let us go hence — Into the city, to the passover. All that has been related from John 12:31, was done an... [ Continue Reading ]