John 14:2

Listen, I am going home to my father, and I am going to get a place ready for each one of you to come to. It’s like my father has a big house with a lot of room in it, and I will get a place ready for each of you. That’s what I told you before, and it is true.

Plain English 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

1Jesus said to his followers, “Don’t let anything upset you. You believe in God, and you have to believe in me too.

3And after everything is ready, I will come back and get you. Then you will live with me for ever.

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Cross References

John 13:33My friends, to me you are like my own little kids, but I will not be with you much longer. You can’t come with me to the place I am going. You will look for me, but you will not find me. I said that to the Jewish leaders, and now I’m telling you the same thing.

John 16:4I am telling you this now, so that when those bad things happen, you will remember that I told you about them. You didn’t need to know about them before, because I was with you. But now I am going away, so I have to tell you about them.”

Acts 9:16I will show him that some people will not like him talking about me, so they will give him big trouble and hurt him.”

1 Thessalonians 3:3We knew that people would give you trouble, and we didn’t want any of you to stop following Jesus. You yourselves know that you get trouble for following Jesus.

2 Thessalonians 1:4And whenever we visit God’s people in the churches in other places, we tell them all about you. We tell them that you keep on believing in Jesus, no matter how much trouble people give you, and no matter how much they hurt you.

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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