Wesley's Explanatory Notes
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.
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.
CHAPTER XIV. _Christ comforts his disciples, on the event of his removal from_ _them, by the consideration of his going to prepare a place for_ _them in heaven_, 1-4. _Thomas questions him concern...
LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED - The disciples had been greatly distressed at what Jesus had said about leaving them. Compare John 16:6, John 16:22. Perhaps they had indicated their distress to him in...
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....
CHAPTER XIV. THE HOUSE OF MANY MANSIONS (John 14:1-14) "No sooner had Judas left the room than, as though it had been relieved of some ghastly incubus, the spirits of the little company revived. The...
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...
NOT. Greek. _me._ App-105. TROUBLED. Compare John 11:33 (Himself); John 12:27 (My soul); John 18:21 (spirit). Here it is the heart. In all cases the whole being is meant. See also...
_Let not your heart be troubled_ There had been much to cause anxiety and alarm; the denouncing of the traitor, the declaration of Christ's approaching departure, the prediction of S. Peter's denial....
ΜῊ ΤΑΡΑΣΣΈΣΘΩ Ὑ. Ἡ. Κ. There had been much to cause anxiety and alarm; the denouncing of the traitor, the declaration of Christ’s approaching departure, the prediction of S. Peter’s denial. The last a...
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...
ΤΑΡΑΣΣΈΣΘΩ _praes. imper. pass._ 3 _pers. sing. от_ ΤΑΡΆΣΣΩ (G5015) беспокоить (_см._ John 11:33). _Praes. conj._ с отр. ΜΉ (G3361) указывает на прекращение развивающегося действия (MKG, 272). _Pass....
DISCOURSE: 1682 FAITH IN CHRIST AN ANTIDOTE TO ALL TROUBLE John 14:1. _Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me_. AS God is eminently distinguished by that character, “Th...
LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED:— Jesus not only forewarned his disciples of the great trial that was coming upon them, and commanded them to arm themselves against it, (see Luke 22:35.) but he spoke a...
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...
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 'We now come,' says Olshausen admirably, 'to that portion of the Evangelical History which we may with propriety call its Holy...
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...
14:1 on (c-9) on (c-13) _ Eis_ . see Note, 2 Timothy 1:12 ....
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...
'Be not disquieted at My departure (see John 13:36). Have faith that I have the power to fulfil the promises that I now make to you.'...
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,...
XIV. (1) LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED. — The division of Chapter s is unfortunate, as it breaks the close connection between these words and those which have gone immediately before. The prophecy of...
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...
But as they sat astounded and perplexed, He continues, Μὴ ταρασσέσθω ὑμῶν ἡ καρδία. Let not your heart be tossed and agitated like water driven by winds; _cf._ Liddell and S. and Thayer. He not only c...
to John 14:31 comprise one continuous conversation, introduced by Jesus' announcement (John 13:31-35) of His speedy departure....
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...
Let (1) not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. (1) He believes in God who believes in Christ, and there is no other way to strengthen and encourage our minds during the gr...
After having answered the questions of St. Peter, Jesus again addresses himself to his disciples, and bids them not to be afflicted or troubled, at what he says to them. Many Greek and Latins begin 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...
VV. 1, 2. “ _Let not your heart be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me._ 2. _In my Father's house there are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you;I go to prepare a place for...
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...
CONTENTS The Lord is here comforting his Disciples, to prepare their Minds against the Time of his Departure. He describes the Person, Work, and Grace, of the Holy Ghost...
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...
_TROUBLE AND ITS REMEDY_ ‘Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me.’ John 14:1 Of all the verses in the Bible there is none which has given so much comfort to the whole...
_HIS ONLY SON OUR LORD_ ‘Believe in God, believe also in Me.’ John 14:1 Manifestly, everybody must believe in God before he can believe in Jesus Christ in any deep sense; for to say that ‘Jesus is...
1._Let not your heart be troubled. _Not without good reason does Christ confirm his disciples by so many words, since a contest so arduous and so terrible awaited them; for it was no ordinary temptati...
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...
LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED,.... In some copies this verse begins thus, and he said to his disciples; and certain it is, that these words are addressed to them in general, Peter being only the pers...
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. Ver. 1. _Let not your heart, &c._] Our Saviour sweetly proceeds in his swan-like song. Aelian tells us that he once heard a dyin...
_Let not your hearts be troubled_ At the thoughts of my departure from you, and leaving you in a world where you are likely to meet with many temptations, trials, and troubles, and to become a helples...
BE TROUBLED; a season of great trial was just before them. But in passing through it, they must not lose their confidence in God or in him. Trust in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ his Son, is the...
LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED; YE BELIEVE IN GOD, BELIEVE ALSO IN ME....
OF CHRIST'S GOING TO THE FATHER. The comfort of Christ's going:...
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....
JOHN CHAPTER 14 1 THESSALONIANS 14:1 Christ comforteth his disciples with the promise of a heavenly mansion. 1 THESSALONIANS 14:5 He professes himself the way, the truth, and the life,...
Homily on Habib the Martyr For this-that he might speak of Him without hindrance.[5]...
John 14:1 Let G5015 not G3361 your G5216 heare G2588 troubled G5015 (G5744) believe G4100 (G5719) ...
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...
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Have confidence (believe) in God, have confidence also in me.” Conscious of their troubled thoughts and hearts He set out to encourage them. And He did it by point...
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 14:1. LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED: BELIEVE IN GOD, BELIEVE ALSO IN ME. No separation ought to be made between this chapter and the last section of chap, 13, for the place, the circumstances, a...
LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED (μη ταρασσεσθω υμων η καρδια). Not here the physical organ of life (Luke 21:34), but the seat of spiritual life (πνευμα, ψυχη), the centre of feeling and faith (Romans...
John 14:1 Consider the connection between believing in God and believing in Jesus Christ. I. Note first that the difficulty which men find in their way when asked to believe in Christ arises from the...
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:_ 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,...
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...
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...
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...
DO NOT BE WORRIED AND UPSET. He knows what will happen to him this night, and that he will die on the Cross the next day, But Jesus does not ask for help, he gives it! AND BELIEVE ALSO IN ME. They wer...
_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 14:1 The esv translates BELIEVE IN GOD as an imperative (a command), but it could also be rendered as a statement (“You believe in God”; see esv footnote). The imperative is pro
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 2:23; 1 John 2:24; 1 John 5:10; 1 Peter 1:21; 1 Thessalonia
Heart [κ α ρ δ ι α]. Never used in the New Testament, as in the Septuagint, of the mere physical organ, though sometimes of the vigor and sense of physical life (Acts 14:17; James 5:5; Luke 21:34). Ge...
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...
Our blessed Saviour in the foregoing chapter, having acquainted his disciples with his approaching death, by the treachery of Judas, their hearts were thereupon overwhelmed with grief and trouble. Acc...