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John 14:2
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There are many rooms in my Father's house. I would not tell you this if it were not true. I am going there to prepare a place for you.
In my fathers housse are many mansions. If it were not so I wolde have tolde you. I go to prepare a place for you.
In my Father's house are many mansions. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
There are many rooms in my Father's house. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going away to prepare a place for you?John 13:33,36;">[xr]
"In My Father's house are many rooms; if that were not so, I would have told you, because I am going there to prepare a place for you.
There are many rooms in my Father's house; I would not tell you this if it were not true. I am going there to prepare a place for you.
In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.
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 rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
In my Father's house are many mansions. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
In my Father's house are many mansions; if not, I would have told you.
In my Father's house there are many resting-places. Were it otherwise, I would have told you; for I am going to make ready a place for you.
In the hous of my fadir ben many dwellyngis; if ony thing lesse, Y hadde seid to you, for Y go to make redi to you a place.
In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.
In My Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
"In My Father's house are many dwelling places. If it were not so, I would have told you, because I am going there to prepare a place for you.
In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.
In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?
In my Father's house are many places to live. If there weren't, I would have told you; because I am going there to prepare a place for you.
In my Father's house there are many abodes; were it not so, I had told you: for I go to prepare you a place;
Many are the mansions of my Father's house: and if not, I would have told you; for I go to prepare for you a place.
There are many mansions in the house of my Father: and if not, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.
In my Fathers house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would haue told you: I goe to prepare a place for you.
There is more than enough room in my Father's home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?
There are many rooms in My Father's house. If it were not so, I would have told you. I am going away to make a place for you.
In my Father's house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
In my Fathers house are many dwelling places: if it were not so, I would haue tolde you: I go to prepare a place for you.
In my Father''s house there are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
In the house of my Father, are, many dwellings; or else I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you.
In my Father’s house there are many mansions. If not, I would have told you: because I go to prepare a place for you.
In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
In my fathers house, are many dwellyng places: If it were not so, I woulde haue tolde you. I go to prepare a place for you.
There are many rooms in my Father's house, and I am going to prepare a place for you. I would not tell you this if it were not so.
In my Father’s house are many rooms; if not, I would have told you. I am going away
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 there are many dwelling places; but if not, I would have told you, because I am going away to prepare a place for you.
In My Father's house are many dwelling places. But if it were not so , I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you!
in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;
In my fathers house are many dwellinges. Yf it were not so, I wolde haue tolde you: I go to prepare the place for you.
in my father's house are many mansions; however, I have told you, I am going to prepare a place for you:
There are many dwelling places in my Father's house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you.
In My Father's house are many mansions; [fn] if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. [fn]
My Father's outfit has many ranches. If that wasn't the case, would I have told you I'm going to prepare one for you?
"In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.
In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
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my: 2 Corinthians 5:1, Hebrews 11:10, Hebrews 11:14-16, Hebrews 13:14, Revelation 3:12, Revelation 3:21, Revelation 21:10-27
if: John 12:25, John 12:26, John 16:4, Luke 14:26-33, Acts 9:16, 1 Thessalonians 3:3, 1 Thessalonians 3:4, 1 Thessalonians 5:9, 2 Thessalonians 1:4-10, Titus 1:2, Revelation 1:5
I go: John 13:33, John 13:36, John 17:24, Hebrews 6:20, Hebrews 9:8, Hebrews 9:23-26, Hebrews 11:16, Revelation 21:2
Reciprocal: Genesis 45:10 - be near Genesis 47:11 - Rameses Joshua 3:6 - Take up Joshua 19:51 - These are Psalms 45:8 - ivory Psalms 115:16 - heaven Psalms 131:2 - myself Song of Solomon 1:4 - the king Zechariah 3:7 - I will Matthew 25:34 - prepared Luke 9:27 - I tell Luke 14:22 - and yet John 10:4 - he goeth John 14:4 - whither John 20:17 - I ascend 2 Thessalonians 2:14 - to
Cross-References
This happened before the Lord had destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. And when Lot looked around, he saw there was plenty of water in the Jordan Valley. All the way to Zoar the valley was as green as the garden of the Lord or the land of Egypt.
was full of tar pits, and when the troops from Sodom and Gomorrah started running away, some of them fell into the pits. Others escaped to the hill country.
All praise belongs to God Most High for helping you defeat your enemies." Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.
has become a scorching desert of salt and sulfur, where nothing is planted, nothing sprouts, and nothing grows. It will be as lifeless as the land around the cities of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, after the Lord became angry and destroyed them.
The Lord also showed him the land in the south, from the valley near the town of Jericho, known as The City of Palm Trees, down to the town of Zoar.
Another patrol would go west along the road to Beth-Horon. A third patrol would go east toward the desert on the road to the ridge that overlooks Zeboim Valley.
Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
I pity Moab! Its people are running to Zoar and to Eglath-Shelishiyah. They cry on their way up to the town of Luhith; on the road to Horonaim they tell of disasters.
Weeping from Heshbon can be heard as far as Elealeh and Jahaz; cries from Zoar are heard in Horonaim and Eglath-Shelishiyah. And Nimrim Creek has run dry.
Israel, I can't let you go. I can't give you up. How could I possibly destroy you as I did the towns of Admah and Zeboiim? I just can't do it. My feelings for you are much too strong.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 with the same price, justified with the same righteousness, and are equally the sons of God, their glory will be the same. But, it denotes fulness and sufficiency of room for all his people; for the many ordained to eternal life, for whom Christ gave his life a ransom, and whose blood is shed for the remission of their sins, whose sins he bore, and whom he justifies by his knowledge; who receive him by faith, and are the many sons he will bring to glory. And this is said for the comfort of the disciples who might be assured from hence, that there would be room not only for himself and Peter, whom he had promised should follow him hereafter, but for them all. Very agreeable to this way of speaking are many things in the Jewish writings:
"says R. Isaack o, how many ×××ר×× ×¢× ×××ר××, "mansions upon mansions", are there for the righteous in that world? and the uppermost mansion of them all is the love of their Lord.''
Moreover, they say p, that
"in the world to come every righteous man shall have ×××ר, "a mansion", to himself.''
Sometimes they q speak of "seven mansions" (a number of perfection) being prepared for the righteous in the other world, though entirely ignorant of the person by whom these mansions are prepared: who here says,
if it were not so, I, would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you. This expresses the certainty of it, that his Father had a house, and in it were many mansions, room enough for all his people, or he would have informed them otherwise, who must needs know the truth of these things, since he came from thence; and who never deceives with vain hopes of glory; and whatever he says is truth, and to be depended on; everything he here delivers; both what he said before, and also what follows: "I go to prepare a place for you"; heaven is a kingdom prepared by the Father for his saints, from the foundation of the world; and again, by the presence and intercession of Christ, who is gone before, and is as a forerunner entered into it, and has took possession of it in the name of his people; and by his own appearance there for them with his blood, righteousness, and sacrifice, he is, as it were, fitting up these mansions for their reception, whilst they are by his Spirit and grace fitting and preparing for the enjoyment of them.
o Zohar in Deut. fol. 113. 1. p Praefat ad Sepher Raziel, fol. 2. 1. Nishmat Chayim, fol. 26. 2. & 27. 1. q T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 75. 1. Nishmat Chayim, fol. 32. 2. Midrash Tillim in Galatin. l. 12. c. 6.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
In my Fatherâs 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 âmansionsâ means either the act of dwelling in any place (John 14:23, âwe will make our abode with himâ), 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 it as affirming that there will be different grades in the joys of heaven; that some of the mansions of the saints will be nearer to God than others, agreeably to 1 Corinthians 15:40-41. But perhaps this passage may have a meaning which has not occurred to interpreters.
Jesus was consoling his disciples, who were affected with grief at the idea of his separation. To comfort them he addresses them in this language: âThe universe is the dwelling-place of my Father. All is his house. Whether on earth or in heaven, we are still in his habitation. In that vast abode of God there are many mansions. The earth is one of them, heaven is another. Whether here or there, we are still in the house, in one of the mansions of our Father, in one of the apartments of his vast abode. This we ought continually to feel, and to rejoice that we are permitted to occupy any part of his dwelling-place. Nor does it differ much whether we are in this mansion or another. It should not be a matter of grief when we are called to pass from one part of this vast habitation of God to another. I am indeed about to leave you, but I am going only to another part of the vast dwelling-place of God. I shall still be in the same universal habitation with you; still in the house of the same God; and am going for an important purpose - to fit up another abode for your eternal dwelling.â If this be the meaning, then there is in the discourse true consolation. We see that the death of a Christian is not to be dreaded, nor is it an event over which we should immoderately weep. It is but removing from one apartment of Godâs universal dwelling-place to another - one where we shall still be in his house, and still feel the same interest in all that pertains to his kingdom. And especially the removal of the Saviour from the earth was an event over which Christians should rejoice, for he is still in the house of God, and still preparing mansions of rest for His people.
If it were not so ... - I have concealed from you no truth. You have been cherishing this hope of a future abode with God. Had it been ill founded I would have told you plainly, as I have told you other things. Had any of you been deceived, as Judas was, I would have made it known to you, as I did to him.â
I go to prepare a place for you - By his going is meant his death and ascent to heaven. The figure here is taken from one who is on a journey, who goes before his companions to provide a place to lodge in, and to make the necessary preparations for their entertainment. It evidently means that he, by the work he was yet to perform in heaven, would secure their admission there, and obtain for them the blessings of eternal life. That work would consist mainly in his intercession, Hebrews 10:12-13, Hebrews 10:19-22; Hebrews 7:25-27; Hebrews 4:14, Hebrews 4:16.
That where I am - This language could be used by no one who was not then in the place of which he was speaking, and it is just such language as one would naturally use who was both God and man - in reference to his human nature, speaking of his going to his Father; and in reference to his divine nature, speaking as if he was then with God.
Ye may be also - This was language eminently fitted to comfort them. Though about to leave them, yet he would not always be absent. He would come again at the day of judgment and gather all his friends to himself, and they should be ever with him, Hebrews 9:28. So shall all Christians be with him. And so, when we part with a beloved Christian friend by death, we may feel assured that the separation will not be eternal. We shall meet again, and dwell in a place where there shall be no more separation and no more tears.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
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; Jeremiah 35:2; Jeremiah 35:4; Jeremiah 36:10.
If-not-I would have told you. — If your places were not prepared in the kingdom of God, I would not have permitted you to have indulged a vain hope concerning future blessedness.
