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John 14:2

In my Father’s house, there are many dwelling places. If there were not, I would have told you. For I go to prepare a place for you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

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 Context

1“Do not let your heart be troubled. You believe in God. Believe in me also.

3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will return again, and then I will take you to myself, so that where I am, you also may be.

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Cross References

Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to me, and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yes, even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple.

John 13:33Little sons, for a brief while, I am with you. You shall seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you are not able to go,’ so also I say to you now.

John 16:4But these things I have spoken to you, so that, when the hour for these things will have arrived, you may remember that I told you.

Acts 9:16For I will reveal to him how much he must suffer on behalf of my name.”

1 Thessalonians 3:3so that no one would be disturbed during these tribulations. For you yourselves know that we have been appointed to this.

2 Thessalonians 1:4so much so that we ourselves even glory in you among the churches of God, because of your patience and faith in all of your persecutions and tribulations that you endure,

Matthew Henry on John 14:2-4

Christ's Consolatory Discourse. 1 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 I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. In these verses we have, I. A general caution which Christ gives to his disciples against trouble of heart ( v. 1 ): Let not your heart be troubled. They now began to… Read the whole commentary →

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