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. IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS - and so, room for all and a place for each. IF IT WERE NOT SO, I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU - and not have deceived you all this time. I GO - or, according to what is undoubtedly the true reading, 'because I go' TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU, [ hoti (G3754), before poreuomai (G4198) has decisive authority, and is inserted by all critical editors.] The meaning is, 'Doubt not, that there is for all of you a place in My Father's house, for I am going on purpose to prepare it.' In what sense? First, To establish their right to Be there; Second, To take possession of...

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 for them also in the heavenly kingdom. For it was proper that he should remove the suspicion from their minds, that, when Christ ascended to the Father, he left his disciples on earth without taking any farther notice of them. This passage has been erroneously interpreted in another sense, as if Christ taught that’ there are various degrees of honor in the heavenly kingdom; for he says, that the _mansions _are _many_, not that they are different or unlike, but that there are enough of them for a great number of persons; as if he had said, that there is room not only for himself, but also for all his disciples. _And if it were not so, I would have told you. _Here commentators differ. Some re...

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. However others are overwhelmed with the sorrows of this present time, be not you so. Christ's disciples, more than others, should keep their minds quiet, when everything else is unquiet. Here is the remedy against this trouble of mind, "Believe." By believing in Christ as the Mediator between God and man, we gain comfort. The happiness of heaven is spoken of as in a father's house. There are many mansions, for there are many sons to be brought to glory. Mansions are lasting dwellings. Christ will be the Finisher of that of which he is the Author or Beginner; if he have prepared the place for us, he will prepare us for it. Christ is the sinner's Way to the Father and to heaven, in his person...

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 separated. I am going to that state of glory where there is not only a place of supreme eminence for myself, but also places for all my disciples - _various degrees of glory_, suited to the _various_ _capacities_ and _attainments_ of my followers. Our Lord alludes here to the _temple_, which was called the _house_ _of God_, in the precincts of which there were a great number of chambers, 1 Kings 6:5; Ezra 8:29;...

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 MANSIONS - The word rendered “mansions” means either the act of dwelling in any place (John 14:23, “we will make our abode with him”), or it means the place where one dwells. It is taken from the verb to remain, and signifies the place where one dwells or remains. It is applied by the Greek writers to the tents or temporary habitations which soldiers pitch in their marches. It denotes a dwelling of less permanency than the word house. It is commonly understood as affirming that in heaven there is ample room to receive all who will come; that therefore the disciples might be sure that they would not be excluded. Some have understood

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 Peter, which followed the announcement of the treachery of Judas and his departure, the solemnity of the Lord, and the clear announcement of his approaching death, had fallen like a thunderbolt into their company. Judas held the bag, and was their treasurer, their ἐπίσκοπος_ _(see Hatch's 'Bampt. Lect.'), and a referee on all practical subjects and details. He had turned against the Lord; and now their spokesman, their rock of strength, their most prominent and their boldest brother, the senior of the group, and with one exception the disciple most beloved and trusted by the Master, was actually warned against the most deadly sin—nay, more, a course o

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 with the views and hopes of glory under all their troubles. By his "Father's house" is meant heaven; see 2 Corinthians 5:1; which is of his Father's building, where he has, and will have all his family. This Christ says partly to reconcile the minds of his disciples to his departure from them, and partly to strengthen their hope of following him thither; since it was his Father's, and their Father's house whither he was going, and in which "are many mansions"; abiding or dwelling places; mansions of love, peace, joy, and rest, which always remain: and there are "many" of them, which does not design different degrees of glory; for since the saints are all loved with the same love, bought wi

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, believe also in me._ As Jews, they had already known and seen the power of God. They were now to rise to the faith of Christians, and to believe in Jesus their Saviour. Even though they should see him die, they were not to doubt him: «Ye believe in God, believe also in me.» John 14:2. _In my Father's house are many mansions:_ So there is room for many, there are homes for many, there is wealth for many; «In my Father's house are many mansions:»...

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 to be explained as a simplification introduced by copyists who took it as o[ti _recitativum_, which is often omitted as superfluous....

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 14:28 .) There is no break between these two Chapter s. The Lord continues His discourse to the eleven disciples. “Let not your heart be troubled!” What precious words of comfort! How many hearts have been soothed by them and how many tears they have dried! And after His loving words He said again: “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” ...