John 14:2
There are many mansions in the house of my Father: and if not, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
1Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, and, believe in me.
Cross References
Luke 14:26He that cometh to me, and hateth not his father and his mother, and his brothers and his sisters, and his wife and his children, and his own life also, cannot become a disciple to me.
John 13:33My children, a little longer I am with you; and ye will seek for me; and, as I said to the Jews, Whither I go ye cannot come, so I now say to you.
John 16:4These things have I spoken to you, that when the time of them cometh, ye may recollect, that I told you of them. And I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
Acts 9:16For I will show him, how much he is to suffer on account of my name.
1 Thessalonians 3:3lest any of you should be disheartened by these afflictions; for ye know, that we are appointed thereto.
2 Thessalonians 1:4Insomuch that we also boast of you in the churches of God, on account of your faith, and your patience in all the persecution and trials that ye endure;
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 →