Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 14:2
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.
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.
JOHN 14:2 o[ti {B} In this passage, where o[ti may mean either “that” or “because,” its absence from some witnesses (î66* C2vid D Q 28 700 _Byz Lect,_ followed by the Textus Receptus) is probably...
Verse John 14:2. _IN MY FATHERS HOUSE_, c.] The kingdom of glory. _MANY MANSIONS_] Though I have said before that whither I am going ye cannot come _now_, yet do not think that we shall be for ever...
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....
IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS. By the "Father's house" is meant the heavenly abode. He is about to return there, from whence he had come. It was not. small, narrow place, where few could be...
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...
IN. Greek. _en._ App-104. MY FATHER'S. In John's Gospel the Lord uses this expression thirty-five times, though in. few instances the texts read "the" instead of "My". It is found fourteen times in t...
_In my Father's house_ Heaven. Comp. -The Lord's throne is in heaven," Psalms 11:4; -Our Father, Which art in heaven" (Matthew 6:9), &c. _are many mansions_ Nothing is said about mansions differing in...
ΤΗ͂Ι ΟἸΚΊΑΙ Τ. ΠΑΤΡΌΣ. Heaven. Matthew 5:34; Matthew 6:9. By μοναὶ πολλαί nothing is said as to mansions differing in dignity and beauty. There may be degrees of happiness hereafter, but such are neit...
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...
ΜΟΝΑΊ _pl. от_ ΜΟΝΉ (G3438) место жительства. Иоанн может иметь в виду места, где ученики могли жить в мире, оставаясь верными Отцу (Brown), ΈΤΟΙΜΆΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΕΤΟΙΜΆΖΩ (G2090) готовить. _...
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...
IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE, &C.— Our Lord here has been thought by some to allude to the various apartments in the temple, and the vast numbers of people lodged there. Perhaps the allusion may be more gener...
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...
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. IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS - and so, room for all and a place for eac...
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...
MY FATHER'S HOUSE] i.e. heaven. MANY MANSIONS] RM 'abiding-places.' There are various degrees of glory in heaven, and various employments, suitable to the desert and capacity of each (Luke 19:16, etc....
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...
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,...
IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS. — The Greek word used for “house” here is slightly different from that used of the material temple on earth in John 2:16. The exact meaning will be at once seen...
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....
As an encouragement to this trust, He adds, ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ … ὑμῖν. He is going home to His Father's house, but had there been room in it only for Himself He would necessarily have told them that this was...
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...
In my Father's house are many mansions: if [it were] not [so], (a) I would have told you. I go to (b) prepare a place for you. (a) That is, if it were not as I am telling you, that is, unless there w...
_In my Father's house. He does not say of your Father: for though God be the Father of all by creation, and of the just, by the grace of adoption; yet Christ in several places, calls him his Father, i...
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...
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...
_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...
_THE FATHER’S HOUSE_ ‘In My father’s house are many mansions.’ John 14:2 ‘In My Father’s _ house_’—the Greek rather means household, or home—‘are many mansions.’ And indeed the single word ‘home’ p...
_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...
2._In my Father’s house are many dwellings. _As the absence of Christ was a cause of grief, he declares that he does not, go away in such a. manner as to remain separate from them, since there is room...
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...
IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS,.... This he says to draw off their minds from an earthly kingdom to an heavenly one; to point out the place to them whither he was going, and to support them wi...
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. Ver. 2. _I would have told you_] And not have fed you with false hopes of a Utop...
_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...
IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE; in heaven. MANY MANSIONS; dwelling-places. I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU; this going was begun by the Saviour's death-after which he never abode permanently with his disciple...
OF CHRIST'S GOING TO THE FATHER. The comfort of Christ's going:...
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....
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....
OLBGrk; Our Lord's first argument brought to comfort them, from the place whither he was going, and the end of his going thither. The place whither he was going was his FATHER'S HOUSE, so as they need...
Fragments of Papias But that there is this distinction between the habitation of those who produce an hundred-fold, and that of those who produce sixty-fold, and that of those who produce thirty-fold...
John 14:2 In G1722 My G3450 Fathers G3962 house G3614 are G1526 (G5748) many G4183 mansions G3438 not...
“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...
John 14:2. IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY PLACES OF ABODE: IF IT WERE NOT SO, I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU; BECAUSE I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. All the substantives here used ‘house,' ‘places of abode,'...
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...
MANSIONS (μονα). Old word from μενω, to abide, abiding places, in N.T. only here and verse John 14:23. There are many resting-places in the Father's house (οικια). Christ's picture of heaven here i...
John 14:2 The truthfulness of Jesus Christ I. These words were an appeal to the disciples' knowledge of Christ. Had He ever painted His discipleship in false colours? Had He kept back any hard terms?...
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...
THERE ARE MANY ROOMS. [_Mansion =_ a room or apartment in a large building.] He is going home to his Father's _house,_ which has enough rooms for every one of the saved. AND I AM GOING TO PREPARE A PL...
_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 Thessalonians 3:3; 1 Thessalonians 3:4; 1 Thessalonians 5:9; 2 Corinthians 5:1;...
House [ο ι κ ι α]. The dwelling - place. Used primarily of the edifice (Matthew 7:24; Matthew 8:14; Matthew 9:10; Acts 4:34). Of the family or all the persons inha
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...