John 14:2

Where my Father is in heaven there is plenty of room! If that were not true, I would have told you. I am about to go there to prepare a place for you.

Translation for Translators

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 continued by saying to us, “Stop being anxious/worried. Keep on trusting in God (OR, You are trusting in God); also keep trusting in me.

3And because I will go there and prepare a place for you, I will return and take you there to be with me. I will do that so that you may also be where I am.

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Cross References

Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to me who loves his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters more than [HYP] he loves me, he cannot be my disciple. He must even love me more than he loves his own life!

John 13:33You whom I love as though you were my children, I will continue with you only a short time longer. Then you will look for me, but I will not be here. Just like I told the Jewish leaders [SYN], I am telling you now, that where I am going, you cannot come yet.

John 16:4I have told you these things in order that when they start ◄ to cause you to suffer/to persecute you► [MTY], you will remember that I warned you. I did not tell you these things when you first started to accompany me [MTY] because I was with you, and they were causing trouble for me, not for you.”

Acts 9:16I myself will tell him that he must often suffer greatly because of telling people about me [MTY].”

1 Thessalonians 3:3We wanted none of you to consider turning away from Christ as a result of people causing you to suffer. You know that God has planned that we who trust in him will suffer like that when people do that to us who trust in him.

2 Thessalonians 1:4As a result, we keep proudly telling about you to other congregations who worship God. Specifically, we tell them that you are being steadfast and that you continue believing in the Lord Jesus, even though you are frequently suffering [DOU] as a result of people causing you trouble.

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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