John 14:28

"You heard me tell you, ‘I am going away, and yet I am coming to you.’ If you loved me you would have been glad because I said ‘I am going to the Father,’ for my Father is greater than I.

Montgomery 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 own peace I give to you. It is not the world’s ‘Peace’ I give you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

29"And now I tell you this before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe.

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Cross References

Luke 24:51And it happened that while he was blessing them, that he parted from them and was carried into heaven.

John 10:29"My Father who has given them to me is stronger than all, and no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.

John 13:16In solemn truth I tell you that a slave is not greater than his master, neither is a messenger greater than the one who sends 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 →

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