John 14:3

And if I go and prepare a makom for you, I am coming again and will receive you to myself, that where I am, there you may be also.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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 Context

2In the Beis Avi there are many me'onot + 14:2 cf. 14:23 (dwelling places, permanent residences, homes); if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a makom (place) for you?

4And where I go you have da'as of HaDerech. + 14:4 Ps 1:6

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Cross References

John 12:26If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, there also my eved will be. If anyone serves me, HaAv will honor him.

John 14:28You heard me say to you, I am going, + 14:28 Yn 14:12 and I am coming to you. + 14:28 Yn 14:18 If you were having ahavah for me, you would have simcha, because I go to HaAv, for HaAv is greater than me. + 14:28 Yn 1:1,14

Acts 1:11Also, these said, Men of the Galil, why do you stand looking into Shomayim? This Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, the one having been taken up from you into Shomayim, will also come again in like manner as you saw him going into Shomayim.

Romans 8:17And if bnei HaElohim, then also yoreshim (heirs) of G-d and co-heirs + 8:17 Ro 4:13f together with Moshiach, provided that we suffer with him in order that we might also be set in kavod (glory, eschatological glorification) with him.

Philippians 1:23I am kleir (deliberating). I am pulled two drakhim (ways) by a happy dilemma, on the one tzad (side) having the desire to depart and be with Moshiach, for this is much better. + 1:23 2C 5:8

2 Thessalonians 1:12In order that ha-Shem (the Name) of [Moshiach] Adoneinu Yehoshua may be glorified in you, and you, in him, + 1:12 Moshiach according to the unmerited Chen v'Chesed of Eloheinu and Moshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu.

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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