John 14:28

“You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me you would have been glad that I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ because my Father is greater than I.

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

In Context

27“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you; it is not like the world gives that I give to you. Do not let your heart be distressed or intimidated.

29I have told you now, before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe.

Read all of John 14

Cross References

Luke 24:51And it happened, as He was blessing them, that He left them and was carried up into heaven.

John 10:29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch out of my Father's hand.

John 13:16“Most assuredly I say to you, a slave is not greater than his owner, neither is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

Matthew Henry on John 14:26-28

Christ's Consolatory Discourse. 25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. 26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. 27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Two things Christ here comforts his disciples with:— I. That they should be… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study John 14:28