to traverse · verb — aorist passive deponent subjunctive, 1st person singular
and
καὶkai
G2532
and · conjunction
prepare
ἑτοιμάσωhetoimasō
G2090
to prepare · verb — aorist active subjunctive, 1st person singular
a place
τόπονtopon
G5117
a spot (general in space · noun — accusative singular masculine
for you
ὑμῖνhymîn
G5213
to (with or by) you
I will come
ἔρχομαιerchomai
G2064
to come or go (in a great variety of applications · verb — present middle or passive deponent indicative, 1st person singular
again
πάλινpalin
G3825
(adverbially) anew · adverb
and
καὶkai
G2532
and · conjunction
receive
παραλήμψομαιparalēmpsomai
G3880
to receive near · verb — future middle deponent indicative, 1st person singular
you
ὑμᾶςhymâs
G5209
you (as the objective of a verb or preposition)
unto
πρὸςpros
G4314
a preposition of direction · preposition
myself
ἐμαυτοῦemautoû
G1683
of myself so likewise the dative case
that
ἵναina
G2443
compare G3588 (ὁ)) · conjunction
where
ὅπουhopou
G3699
what(-ever) where · conjunction
I
ἐμαυτόν,emauton
G1473
I · reflexive pronoun
am
εἰμὶeimi
G1510
I exist (used only when emphatic) · verb — present active indicative, 1st person singular
ye
ὑμεῖςhymeîs
G5210
you (as subjective of verb)
may be
ὦō
G5600
(may
also
καὶkai
G2532
and · conjunction
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Cross-references
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Chr…
John 12:26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
2 Timothy 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
Acts 1:11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so co…
Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvat…
John 14:18-23 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
John 14:28 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 Fathe…
John 17:24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on John 14:1-3
In these verses we have,
I. A general caution which Christ gives to his disciples against trouble of heart (Joh 14:1): Let not your heart be troubled. They now began to be troubled, were entering into this temptation. Now here see,
1. How Christ took notice of it. Perhaps it was apparent in their looks; it was said (Joh 13:22), They looked one upon another with anxiety and concern, and Christ looked upon them all, and observed it; at least, it was intelligible to the Lord Jesus, who is acquainted with all our secret undiscovered sorrows, with the wound that bleeds inwardly; he knows not only how we are afflicted, but how we stand affected under our afflictions, and how near they lie to our h…
I will come again and receive you unto myself--strictly, at His Personal appearing; but in a secondary and comforting sense, to each individually. Mark again the claim made:--to come again to receive His people to Himself, that where He is there they may be also. He thinks it ought to be enough to be assured that they shall be where He is and in His keeping.
Adam Clarke on John 14:3
And if I go - And when I shall have gone and prepared a place for you - opened the kingdom of an eternal glory for your reception, and for the reception of all that shall die in the faith, I will come again, after my resurrection, and give you the fullest assurances of this state of blessedness; and confirm you in the faith, by my grace and the effusion of my Spirit. Dr. Lightfoot thinks, and with great probability too, that there is an allusion here to Num 10:33 : And the ark of the Lord went before them to search out a resting place for them.
John Gill on John 14:3
And if I go and prepare a place for you,.... Seeing I am going to prepare, and will prepare a place for you, of the truth of which you may be fully assured:
I will come again; either by death or in person a second time, here on earth:
and receive you unto myself; I will take you up with me to heaven; I will receive you into glory;
that where I am there you may be also: and behold my glory, and be for ever with me, and never part more.
The Church Fathers
(Hom. lxxiii. 1) Having said, Thou canst not follow Me now, that they might not think that they were cut off for ever, He adds: 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: a recommendation to them to place the strongest trust in Him.
He says then, If I go, by the absence of the flesh, I shall come again, by the presence of the Godhead; or, I shall come again to judge the quick and dead. And as He knew that they would ask whither He went, or by what way He went, He adds, And whither I go ye know, i. e. to the Father, and the way ye know, i. e. Myself.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you unto myself that where I am there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. And again to the mother of James and John, who asked that the one of them should sit at His right hand and the other on the left in His kingdom, He answered, saying: It is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared by my Father. Those that are worthy, therefore, shall obtain these things before I bestow them whether on your sons or on others that are worthy. But the expression that where I am there ye may be also, shows very remarkably that that place is indissoluble, and has been aforetime prepared, and not that another place is substituted (as those wise men imagine), in which we are to dwell after the resurrection, when this place of the heavens shall have been dissolved. And to speak briefly, the passages in divine scripture are almost innumerable which show that the heaven, into which Christ has entered and into which we also shall enter, is indissoluble.
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Reward Of Saints, The · Described as: Being with Christ — Described as: Being with Christ
Second Coming Of Christ, The · Foretold by: Himself — Foretold by: Himself
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
John 14:3 — meaning, Hebrew and Greek word study, commentary
John Calvin on John 14:1-7
John 14:1-7
1. Let not your heart be troubled -- you believe in God, believe also in me. 2. In my Father's house are many dwellings, and if it were not so, I would have told you: I go to prepare a place for you. 3. And if I go away and prepare a place for you, [60] I will return again, and receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be also. 4. And whither I go you know, and you know the way. 5. Thomas saith to him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest, and how can we know the way? 6. Jesus saith to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father but by me. 7. If you had known me, you would have known my Farther also; and henceforth you know him, and have se…
Some scholars believe that Jesus meant he would come and get his followers after the resurrection (14:18). Others think these words refer to Jesus’ second coming. For the disciples, the more important coming was Jesus’ return from the grave (ch 16).
