Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
John 14:25
Have I spoken - For your consolation and guidance. But, though he had said so many things to console them, yet the Spirit would be given also as their Comforter and Guide.
Have I spoken - For your consolation and guidance. But, though he had said so many things to console them, yet the Spirit would be given also as their Comforter and Guide.
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....
THESE THINGS HAVE. SPOKEN, BEING PRESENT. "These things" is put in contrast with "all things" in the next verse. They were yet so dull that they could not fully comprehend even what he said, but the...
"I have spoken these things to you while to you while I am still with you. The Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that...
THE PROMISE OF GLORY (John 14:1-3)...
BEING YET PRESENT. abiding. Greek. _mend._. characteristic word in John's Gospel. See p. 1511. Same word as "abide", John 14:16, and "dwell", verses: John 14:10; John 14:17....
_being yet present_ Better, WHILE ABIDING; it is S. John's favourite verb (see on John 1:33). With this verse the discourse takes a fresh start returning to the subject of the Paraclete. Perhaps there...
ΤΑΥ͂ΤΑ. First for emphasis in opposition to πάντα in John 14:26 : ‘Thus much I tell you now; the Advocate shall tell you all.’...
Ver 22. Judas said to him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world? 23. Jesus answered and said to him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and m...
_TRUE PEACE FROM THE LORD -- JOHN 14:25-31:_ Jesus had spent over three years teaching the apostles concerning the will of God. Now the Father would send the Holy Spirit as a Comforter, Strengthener,...
ΛΕΛΆΛΗΚΑ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΛΑΛΈΩ (G2980) говорить. _Perf._ подчеркивает завершенность действия, ΜΈΝΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΜΈΝΩ, _см._ John 14:10. Temp. _part._ подчеркивает длительность служени...
THESE THINGS HAVE I SPOKEN— "I have spoken these things during my personal presence, because my time with you is short; and though you may not just now understand many of the particulars mentioned by...
GOING TO LEAVE PEACE AND OVERCOMING POWER _Text 14:25-31_ 25 These things have I spoken unto you, while yet abiding with you. 26 But the Comforter, even the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 14:21-31 The following is an Analysis of the closing section of John 14: 1. Christ manifested to the believer, verse 21. That the central design of Christ in t...
These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. THESE THINGS HAVE I SPOKEN UNTO YOU, BEING YET PRESENT, [ menoon (G3306 )] WITH YOU - or 'while yet abiding with you.'...
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...
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,...
THESE THINGS HAVE I SPOKEN UNTO YOU, BEING YET PRESENT WITH YOU. — Better,... _while abiding with you._ He was about to depart from them. He had been speaking to them words which they found it hard to...
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...
XI. _ THE BEQUEST OF PEACE._ "Judas (not Iscariot) saith unto Him, Lord, what is come to pass that Thou wilt manifest Thyself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a ma...
Ταῦτα λελάληκα … μένων, implying that this abiding and teaching were now at an end....
to John 14:31 comprise one continuous conversation, introduced by Jesus' announcement (John 13:31-35) of His speedy departure....
_The conversation closed by bequest of peace_. The genuineness of this report of the last words of Jesus is guaranteed by the frequency with which He seems to be on the point of breaking off. The cons...
CHRIST'S GIFT OF PEACE John 14:25-31 Our Lord gives the fourfold basis of His peace: (1) The vision of the Father. Throughout these wonderful Chapter s He seems able to speak of nothing else. If we l...
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...
(8) These things have I spoken unto you, being [yet] present with you. (8) It is the duty and responsibility of the Holy Spirit to imprint in the minds of the elect, in their times and seasons, that...
Lord, how is it? Literally, what is done, or, what will be done, that thou art about to manifest thyself to us, and not to the world? This apostle imagined, that the Messias would make manifest his gl...
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...
“ _I have spoken these things to you while I am yet with you._ 26. _But the support, the Holy Spirit, whom my Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will bring all things to your...
1. The phrase ταῦτα λελάληκα is repeated several times in these Chapter s, and evidently refers, in each case, to the entire section which precedes. Here, the reference is to the whole discourse of th...
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...
25._These things I have spoken to you. _He adds this, that they may not despair, though they may have profited less than they ought to have done; for at that time he scattered a seed of doctrine, whic...
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...
THESE THINGS HAVE I SPOKEN UNTO YOU,.... Concerning his Father, and his Father's house, and the way to both; concerning his being in the father, and the Father in him; concerning keeping his commandme...
These things have I spoken unto you, being _yet_ present with you. Ver. 25. _These things have I spoken unto you_] And truly I may seem to have spoken to small purpose (_verba quid incassum non profi...
_These things have I spoken, being yet present_ I have spoken these things during my personal presence with you briefly, because my time with you is short. _But the Comforter, whom the Father will sen...
THESE THINGS HAVE I SPOKEN TO YOU, BEING YET PRESENT WITH YOU....
OF THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT. v. 24. HE THAT LOVETH ME NOT KEEPETH NOT MY SAYINGS; AND THE WORD WHICH YE HEAR IS NOT MINE, BUT THE FATHER'S WHICH SENT ME....
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...
25-27 Would we know these things for our good, we must pray for, and depend on the teaching of the Holy Ghost; thus the words of Jesus will be brought to our remembrance, and many difficulties be cle...
That is, as to his bodily presence: For more than three years I have been fulfilling a ministry amongst you, and have spoken many things to you....
John 14:25 things G5023 spoken G2980 (G5758) you G5213 present G3306 (G5723) with G3844 you G5213 have
JESUS PROMISES THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL ENABLE THEM TO REMEMBER FULLY ALL THAT HE HAS TAUGHT THEM (JOHN 14:25). Drawing attention to what He has taught them during His earthly ministry Jesus now pro...
“I have spoken these things to you while abiding with you”. These words signal the end of His own personal ministry to them. They will no more benefit from His earthly presence and teaching. He has s...
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...
John 14:25. THESE THINGS HAVE I SPOKEN UNTO YOU WHILE ABIDING WITH YOU. We now enter upon a new part of the discourse, in which the leading idea is the strength to be afforded to the disciples after t...
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...
HAVE I SPOKEN (λελαληκα). Perfect active indicative of λαλεω, for permanent keeping (τηρεω verse John 14:23).WHILE YET ABIDING WITH YOU (παρ' υμιν μενων). Present active participle, no "yet" (ετ)...
John 14:22 Observe: I. The harmony we may trace between the Spirit's working and the working of our own hearts and minds, according to the ordinary laws of thought and feeling which regulate their mo...
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. 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...
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...
In this «sacred farewell» talk of our Lord's, he gives us many a revelation of the soul's way of intercourse with him. John 14:21. He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them. he it is that loveth...
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...
_These things have I spoken unto you_ THE MISSION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT I. ITS DISTINCTION FROM THAT OF JESUS CHRIST. Both Christ and the Spirit were sent by the Father, and were sent to teach; but the...
_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...
John 13:19; John 14:29; John 15:11; John 16:12; John 16:1;...
Being yet present [μ ε ν ω ν]. Rev., stronger and more literally, while yet abiding....
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...
Here we have. repeated promise of the mission of the Holy Ghost, called THE COMFORTER, and his special office declared; namely, to teach, and to bring to remembrance what Christ had taught; HE SHALL T...