_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 helpless prey to the rage and power of your enemies. _Ye believe in God_ The Almighty Preserver and Governo... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 holy angels, your predecessors in the faith, and all that now believe, or shall hereafter believe, e... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thomas saith_ Taking him in a gross sense; _Lord, we know not whither thou goest_ “As their thoughts turned very much on a temporal kingdom, they might imagine that their Master intended to remove to some splendid palace on earth, which he was to prepare for their reception, making it the seat of h... [ Continue Reading ]
_If ye had known me_ As ye might and ought to have known me. If ye had earnestly sought and obtained that knowledge of me which is communicated by the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, (Ephesians 1:17,) ye would _have known my Father also_ In his various perfections, and in those blessed relations in... [ Continue Reading ]
_Philip_ One of the apostles, hearing these words; _saith unto him_ With a pious ardour becoming his character; _Lord, show us the Father_ Do but bring us to the sight and enjoyment of him; _and it sufficeth us_ It is happiness enough for us; we desire no more, and resign every other hope in compari... [ Continue Reading ]
_Verily, he that believeth on me_, &c. Having mentioned his miracles, Jesus proceeds to promise, that he would endow his apostles with a power of performing even greater wonders than any they had ever seen him do. He made them this promise to animate them in their work, and that they might not despo... [ Continue Reading ]
_If ye love me_ As ye profess to do, _keep my commandments_ For that will be a surer test and more acceptable expression of your regard for me than all your trouble and concern at parting with me. Keeping Christ's commandments is evidently here put for the practice of godliness in general, and for t... [ Continue Reading ]
_I will not leave you comfortless_ Greek, ορφανους, orphans: a word elegantly applied to those who have lost any dear friend; _I will come to you_ By my spiritual presence. The Greek, ερχομαι, is literally, _I come to you;_ for what was certainly and speedily to be, our Lord speaks of as if it were... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 send in my name_ For my sake, in my room, and as my agent; _he shall teach you all things_ Necessary fo... [ Continue Reading ]
_If ye loved me_ With a wise and rational affection, it would allay your sorrows in the mean time, and howsoever you might have a mournful sense of your own loss; _you would rejoice_ on my account, _because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father_ Whose servant I am, as Mediator; _is_, in this r... [ Continue Reading ]