What does John 14:23 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Jesus answered and said unto him,If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him."
Verse 23. _IF A MAN_] Not only my present disciples, but all those who shall believe on me through _their_ word, or that of their successors: _LOVE ME_] Receive me as his Saviour, and get the love of...
WILL KEEP MY WORDS - See John 14:15. WE WILL COME TO HIM - We will come to him with the manifestation of pardon, peace of conscience, and joy in the Holy Spirit. It means that God will manifest himsel...
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...
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....
IF. MAN LOVE ME, HE WILL KEEP MY WORDS. The Lord again compassionately states the conditions needful for his manifestation, as already pointed out, but adding another and. sweeter idea; that is, that...
THE PROMISE OF GLORY (John 14:1-3)...
ANSWERED, &c. See note on Deuteronomy 1:41 and App-122. A MAN. any one. Greek. _tis_. App-123. WORDS. word (singular) Greek. _logos:_ i.e. the commandments of verses: John 14:15; John 14:21. ABODE....
_Judas_ Excluding the genealogies of Christ we have six persons of this name in the N.T. _Jesus answered_ The answer is given, as so often in our Lord's replies, not directly, but by repeating and de...
ΠΟΙΗΣΌΜΕΘΑ (אBLX) for ποιήσομεν (A). The middle of ποιεῖν is comparatively rare in N.T., but here it is appropriate; Winer, p. 320. 23. ἈΠΕΚΡΊΘΗ. The answer is given, as so often in our Lord’s replies...
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...
_LOVE LEADS TO OBEDIENCE -- JOHN 14:15-24:_ Now we come to recognize the path by which we enjoy God's blessings. Jesus said, "If you love me, you will do as I command you." "He that hath my commandmen...
ΆΠΕΚΡΊΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΆΠΟΚΡΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G611) отвечать, ΈΛΕΥΣΌΜΕΘΑ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) идти, приходить, ΠΟΝΗΣΌΜΕΘΑ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ, _см._ John 14:12...
JUDAS SAITH UNTO HIM, NOT ISCARIOT,— It is observable, that Judas Iscariot was so finished a hypocrite, that we never find him saying one word of Christ's temporal kingdom, though probablythe hope of...
GOING TO SEND THE STRENGTHENER AND REVEALER _Text 14:15-24_ 15 If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be...
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...
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, IF...
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,...
IF A MAN LOVE ME, HE WILL KEEP MY WORDS. — Our Lord repeats the condition necessary on the part of man in order that the manifestation of God to him may be possible. This is an answer to the question...
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....
THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH John 14:12-24 There is no adequate translation for the word _Paraclete._ It may be rendered “interpreter,” “comforter,” “advocate,” but no one word suffices. The Greek means “one...
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...
_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 g...
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...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 15-24. 1. The meaning of the word παράκλητος has been much discussed. It is evidently founded upon the verb παρακαλεῖν as a verbal adjective, and the fund...
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...
_COMING AND ABIDING_ ‘He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father … and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with h...
23._And my Father will love him. _We have already explained that the love of God to us is not placed in the second rank, as if it came after our piety as the cause of that love, but that believers may...
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...
JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM,.... This answer is returned, and these words are spoken, for the further confirmation and explanation of what was before said: IF A MAN LOVE ME, HE WILL KEEP MY WORD...
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. Ver. 23. _Jesus answered and said unto...
_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 lite...
Love to Jesus Christ will lead a man to obey his commands, and will secure to him the illuminating, purifying, and blissful presence of both the Father and the Son. They shall dwell with him and he wi...
The effects of the mystical union:...
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...
18-24 Christ promises that he would continue his care of his disciples. I will not leave you orphans, or fatherless, for though I leave you, yet I leave you this comfort, I will come to you. I will c...
If any man love Christ, he will keep Christ's words; that is, he will study and endeavour to keep the commandments of Christ; for if nothing evidenced a true love to Christ but a perfect obedience to...
Origen de Principiis Book I ed worthy of the glory of God, if He be a fire, consuming materials of that kind? But let us reflect that God does indeed consume and utterly destroy; that He consumes evi...
John 14:23 Jesus G2424 answered G611 (G5662) and G2532 said G2036 (G5627) him G846 If G1437 anyone G5100 loves G25 (G5725) Me G3165 keep G5083 (G5692) My G3450 word G3056 and G2532 My G3450 Father G39...
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...
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...
IF A MAN LOVE ME (εαν τις αγαπα με). Condition of third class with εαν and present active subjunctive, "if one keep on loving me." That is key to the spiritual manifestation (εμφανιζω).WE WILL COME...
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...
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...
WHOEVER ACCEPTS MY COMMANDMENTS. To accept Christ is to accept the obligation which he places on you. (1) You must love Christ. (2) This love will cause you to obey him. (3) God will love you, because...
_Judas saith unto Him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that Thou wilt manifest Thyself unto us and not unto the world?_ HOW MAY THE LORD DISCLOSE OR REVEAL HIMSELF TO HIS DISCIPLES, AND NOT TO OTHERS?...
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, thr...
_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...
1 John 2:24; 1 John 4:15; 1 John 4:16; 1 John 4:4; Genesis 1:26; Genesis 11:7; Isaiah 57:15; John 10:30; John 14:15; John 14:17;...
My word [λ ο γ ο ν μ ο υ]. The entire gospel message, as distinguished from its separate parts or commandments. We will come. Compare John 10:30; Revelation 3:20. Abode [μ ο ν η ν]. See on ver. 2. C...
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...
Jesus answered — Because ye love and obey me, and they do not, therefore I will reveal myself to you, and not to them. My Father will love him — The more any man loves and obeys, the more God will lov...
Observe here, How our Saviour still goes on to direct and encourage his disciples to evidence the sincerity of their love to his person, but the universality of their obedience to his commands; and te...