John 14:18

I’m going back to my father, but I will not leave you all alone, like kids without a mother or father. No. I will come back to you.

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

In Context

17He is the Holy Spirit, and what he teaches is always true. The people that belong to this world are not in God’s family. They don’t understand the Holy Spirit. They don’t know him. So they don’t want him to come to them. But you know him. He is here with you now, and later on, he will live inside you.

19The people that belong to this world will not see me any more, but you will see me again soon. Yes, I will be alive, so you will live too.

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Cross References

Matthew 28:20You have to teach them to do everything that I told you to do. And remember this, I will be with you all the time. I will be with you to help you, right up until the time when this world will finish.”

John 14:16And I will ask my father to send you another helper. He will come to you and stay with you for ever.

Matthew Henry on John 14:16-18

Christ's Consolatory Discourse. 15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. Christ not only proposes such things to them as were the matter of their comfort, but here promises to send the Spirit, whose office it should be to be their… Read the whole commentary →

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