Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
John 14:4
'You know whither I go, viz. to My Father in heaven; and you know how you also may follow Me, viz. by believing in Me.' But the RV has simply, 'And whither I go, ye know the way.'
'You know whither I go, viz. to My Father in heaven; and you know how you also may follow Me, viz. by believing in Me.' But the RV has simply, 'And whither I go, ye know the way.'
JOHN 14:4 th.n o`do,n {B} The syntactical harshness of the shorter reading o[pou evgw. u`pa,gw oi;date th.n o`do,n (î66c a B C* L W X 33 1071 ita, r1vid copbo eth) seems to invite amelioration. Since...
Verse John 14:4. _AND WHITHER I GO YE KNOW_] I have told you this so often and so plainly that ye must certainly have comprehended what I have said....
WHITHER I GO YE KNOW - He had so often told them that he was to die, and rise, and ascend to heaven, that they could not but understand it, Matthew 16:21; Luke 9:22; Luke 18:31....
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....
WHITHER. GO YE KNOW, AND THE WAY YE KNOW. The Lord probably made this statement to provoke questions, such as followed. He had stated so clearly before that it seems strange to us that the apostles di...
THE PROMISE OF GLORY (John 14:1-3)...
"And you know the way to where I go." Thomas said to him: "Lord, we do not know where you are going. How do we know the way?" Jesus said to him: "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to...
KNOW. Greek. _oida._ App-132. Most of the texts omit the second "ye know", and read, "whither, &c., ye know the way. ...
_whither I go ye know, and the way ye know_ The true text seems once more to have been altered to avoid awkwardness of expression (see on John 13:26). Here we should read, _Whither_ I GO, YE KNOW THE...
4. Omit καί before, and οἴδατε after, ΤῊΝ ὉΔΌΝ with אBLQX against ADN: insertions for clearness. 4. ὍΠΟΥ ἘΓῺ ὙΠ. ΟἼΔ. Τ. ὉΔΌΝ. This seems to have been altered as in T. R. to avoid awkwardness of expre...
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...
ΟΊΔΑΤΕ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΟΙΔΑ G1492 знать. Def. perf. со _знач. praes._...
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...
And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. AND WHERE I GO YE KNOW, AND THE WAY YE KNOW....
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...
14:4 know (d-3) know (d-9) _ Oida_ . as ch. 7.29....
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,...
AND WHITHER I GO YE KNOW, AND THE WAY YE KNOW. — The better reading is, _And whither I go, ye know the way, i.e.,_ “Ye know that I am the way to the Father, whither I am going.” (Comp. John 14:6, and...
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...
καὶ ὅπου ἐγὼ ὑπάγω οἴδατε τὴν ὁδόν. The ἐγώ is emphatic: the disciples knew the direction in which He was going....
to John 14:31 comprise one continuous conversation, introduced by Jesus' announcement (John 13:31-35) of His speedy departure....
_A second interruption occasioned by Thomas_....
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...
(3) And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. (3) Christ alone is the way to true and everlasting life, for it is he in whom the Father has revealed himself....
And whither I go, you know, and the way you know. Thomas replied, we know neither. Jesus saith to him, I am the way. They knew it, says St. Augustine, (tract. 69.) but they did not know, that they kne...
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...
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...
VER. 4. “ _And whither I go you know, and the way you know._ ” We translate according to the received reading, which has in its favor 14 Mjj., the _Peschito_ and most of the manuscripts of the _Itala....
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...
_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...
4._And whither I go you know. _As we need no ordinary fortitude, that we may patiently endure to be so long separated from Christ, he adds another confirmation, that the disciples _know _that his deat...
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...
AND WHITHER I GO YE KNOW,.... They might have known, at least, whither he was going, since he had spoke of his Father's house, and of his going to prepare a place for them there, and doubtless had som...
And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Ver. 4. _And whither I go ye know_] Some little knowledge they had, such as Thomas in the next verse denies to be any at all; yet Christ acknowledgeth i...
_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...
WITHER I GO; to the Father. THE WAY YE KNOW; to the Saviour the way was by death upon the cross, as he had often foretold his disciples. Compare note to verse John 14:3. To the disciples, the way was...
AND WHITHER I GO YE KNOW, AND THE WAY YE KNOW. The last speeches of Christ to His disciples, held partly in the upper room of the Passover feast, partly on the way to Gethsemane, are full of the most...
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....
Christ, 1 THESSALONIANS 13:33 of the former chapter, had dignified his disciples with the familiar, loving title of _little children._ It is pleasant to consider how he continueth his discourse to the...
John 14:4 And G2532 where G3699 I G1473 go G5217 (G5719) know G1492 (G5758) and G2532 way...
THEIR CERTAINTY FOR THE FUTURE LIES IN THEIR KNOWING HIM AS THE ONE WHO IS THE WAY TO THE FATHER AND IS THE ONE WHO FULLY REVEALS THE FATHER (JOHN 14:4). Having made clear their final destiny Jesus no...
“And where I am going, you know the way there.” He first stresses that they know the way to where He is going, an that where He is going is to His Father's dwelling place. He has previously taught the...
John 14:4. AND WHITHER I GO AWAY YE KNOW THE WAY. These words convey to the disciples the assurance that they already had the pledge and earnest of all that Jesus had spoken of; for their interpretati...
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...
YE KNOW THE WAY (οιδατε την οδον). Definite allusion to the puzzle of Peter in John 13:36. The path to the Father's house is now plain....
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...
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...
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...
THOMAS SAID TO HIM. "Lord, we expected you to be our King in Jerusalem. We do not understand." I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE. No one can come to God, either in heaven or on earth, except throu...
_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...
_Whither I go ye know_ THE INTERPELLATION OF THOMAS Observe I. THAT A MAN MAY, IN SPIRITUAL THINGS, KNOW MORE THAN HE IS CONSCIOUS OF KNOWING. “Ye know,” “We know not.” It may be said that our Lord...
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...
John 10:9; John 12:26; John 13:3; John 14:2; John 14:28;...
I go [υ π α γ ω]. Withdraw from you. See on 8 21. Ye know, and the way ye know [ο ι δ α τ ε, κ α ι τ η ν ο δ ο ν ο ι δ α τ ε]. The best texts omit the second ye know, and the and before the way; read...
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...
The way — Of faith, holiness, sufferings....