Chapter 14:
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John 14
Verse 1. Let not your heart be troubled - At my departure. Believe - This
is the sum of all his discourse, which is urged till they did believe,
chap. xvi, 30. And then our Lord prays and departs.
Verse
2. In my Father's house are many mansions - Enough to receive
both the holy angels, and your predecessors in the faith, and all
that now believe, and a great multitude, which no man can
number.
Verse
4. The way - Of faith, holiness, sufferings.
Verse
5. Thomas saith - Taking him in a gross sense.
Verse
6. To the question concerning the way, he answers, I am the way.
To the question concerning knowledge, he answers, I am the truth.
To the question whither, I am the life. The first is treated of in this
verse; the second, ver. 7-17; the third, xiv, 18, &c.
Verse
7. Ye have known - Ye have begun to know him.
Verse
10. I am in the Father - The words that I speak, &c. - That is, I am
one with the Father, in essence, in speaking, and in acting.
Verse
11. Believe me - On my own word, because I am God. The works
- This respects not merely the miracles themselves, but his
sovereign, Godlike way of performing them.
Verse
12. Greater works than these shall he do - So one apostle wrought
miracles merely by his shadow, Acts v, 15; another by
handkerchiefs carried from his body, Acts xix, 12; and all spake
with various tongues. But the converting one sinner is a greater
work than all these. Because I go to my Father - To send you the
Holy Ghost.
Verse
15. If ye love me, keep my commandments - Immediately after
faith he exhorts to love and good works.
Verse
16. And I will ask the Father - The 21st verse, ver. 21, shows the
connection between this and the preceding verses. And he will
give you another Comforter - The Greek word signifies also an
advocate, instructer, or encourager. Another - For Christ himself
was one. To remain with you for ever - With you, and your
followers in faith, to the end of the world.
Verse
17. The Spirit of truth - Who has, reveals, testifies, and defends
the truth as it is in Jesus. Whom the world - All who do not love
or fear God, cannot receive, because it seeth him not - Having no
spiritual senses, no internal eye to discern him; nor consequently
knoweth him. He shall be in you - As a constant guest. Your
bodies and souls shall be temples of the Holy Ghost dwelling in
you.
Verse
18. I will not leave you orphans - A word that is elegantly applied
to those who have lost any dear friend. I come to you - What was
certainly and speedily to be, our Lord speaks of as if it were
already.
Verse
19. But ye see me - That is, ye shall certainly see me. Because I
live, ye shall live also - Because I am the living One in my Divine
nature, and shall rise again in my human nature, and live for ever
in heaven: therefore ye shall live the life of faith and love on
earth, and hereafter the life of glory.
Verse
20. At that day - When ye see me after my resurrection; but more
eminently at the day of pentecost.
Verse
21. He that hath my commandments - Written in his heart. I will
manifest myself to him - More abundantly.
Verse
23. 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 love him. And we will come to him, and make our
abode with him - Which implies such a large manifestation of the
Divine presence and love, that the former in justification is as
nothing in comparison of it.
Verse
26. In my name - For my sake, in my room, and as my agent. He
will teach you all things - Necessary for you to know. Here is a
clear promise to the apostles, and their successors in the faith, that
the Holy Ghost will teach them all that truth which is needful for
their salvation.
Verse
27. Peace I leave with you - Peace in general; peace with God and
with your own consciences. My peace - In particular; that peace
which I enjoy, and which I create, I give - At this instant. Not as
the world giveth - Unsatisfying unsettled, transient; but filling the
soul with constant, even tranquillity. Lord, evermore give us this
peace! How serenely may we pass through the most turbulent
scenes of life, when all is quiet and harmonious within! Thou hast
made peace through the blood of thy cross. May we give all
diligence to preserve the inestimable gift inviolate, till it issue in
everlasting peace!
Verse
28. God the Father is greater than I - As he was man. As God,
neither is greater nor less than the other.
Verse
29. I have told you - Of my going and return.
Verse
30. The prince of this world is coming - To make his grand
assault. But he hath nothing in me - No right, no claim, or power.
There is no guilt in me, to give him power over me; no corruption
to take part with his temptation.
Verse
31. But I suffer him thus to assault me,
1. Because it is the Father's commission to me, chap. x, 18.
2. To convince the world of my love to the Father, in being
obedient unto death, Phil. ii, 8. Arise, let us go hence - Into the
city, to the passover. All that has been related from chap. xii, 31,
was done and said on Thursday, without the city. But what
follows in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters, was
said in the city, on the very evening of the passover just before he
went over the brook Kedron.
Chapter 14:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Lightfoot
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| McGarvey Pendleton
| McGee
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Luke Acts
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