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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let not your heart be troubled,.... In some copies this verse begins thus, and he said to his disciples; and certain it is, that these words are addressed to them in general, Peter being only the person our Lord was discoursing with in the latter part of the preceding chapter; but turning, as it were, from him, he directs his speech to them all....
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
This chapter is a continuation of Christ's discourse with his disciples after supper. When he had convicted and discarded Judas, he set himself to comfort the rest, who were full of sorrow upon what he had said of leaving them, and a great many good words and comfortable words he here speaks to them. The discourse in interlocutory; as Peter in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let not your heart be troubled: This is one of those verses that you may read as slowly as you like, and spell out every letter, and find honey in it all. Joh_14:1. Ye believe in God, believe also in me. As Jews, they had already known and seen the power of God. They were now to rise to the faith of Christians, and to believe in Jesus their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. “You have believed in God, whom you have never seen. Believe in me when you cannot see me. Believe that I still am — that I still am working for your good. You have believed in God, though he has not manifested himself to you in his person as I have done. Now when I am no...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. That is the cure for heart trouble, and all other trouble, too, — believing in God, and believing in his Son, Jesus Christ. Faith is the double cure of trouble, for it delivers us altogether from the trouble, and, at the same time, it helps us to find sweetness in it as long as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. There is no cure for heart-trouble but heart-trust. “Ye believe in God,” —you do trust in Divine Providence, now trust in the Saviour’s great atonement. You have come close to God already, come closer still to the Incarnate God, the Lord Jesus Christ; hear him say to you, “Ye...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. Here is a troubled company of disciples, very much cast down, so their Divine Master, full of infinite tenderness, talks to them in this gentle manner, “Let not your heart be troubled.” He does not like to see them troubled; and when they are, he is troubled also. Our Lord here...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. I think our Saviour meant to say, and really did say. “If ye believe in God, ye are believing in me; and if ye believe in me, ye are believing in God; for there is such a perfect unity between us that you need not, when I die make any distinction between me and God, but still...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. You will be troubled; that cannot be helped. But let not your heart be troubled. You are like a ship, and all the water in the sea cannot hurt a ship, if it is kept outside of her. Let not your heart be troubled. How are you to prevent it? Faith is the remedy. Ye believe...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
In my Father's house are many mansions,.... This he says to draw off their minds from an earthly kingdom to an heavenly one; to point out the place to them whither he was going, and to support them with the views and hopes of glory under all their troubles. By his "Father's house" is meant heaven; see 2 Corinthians 5:1; which is of his Father's...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In my Father’s house are many mansions: So there is room for many, there are homes for many, there is wealth for many; “In my Father’s house are many mansions:” Joh_14:2. If it were not so, I would have told you. The Saviour seems to say to his disciples, “I keep nothing back from you; had there been some sorrowful fact to be revealed to you, I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. Our Lord was going away, but he was going away with a purpose, and a grand purpose too — a purpose which had to do with the everlasting future of his beloved ones. “I go to prepare a place for you.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. This was very largely the cause of their trouble; they were full of sorrow because their Lord and Master was going away from them; yet he was going for their good. It was with a set purpose that he was leaving them, and the same...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In my Father’s house are many mansions: You are at home in Christ even now if you are a believer in him. Wherever you are, you are your Heavenly Father’s own child; and you have realized the truth of what David wrote in the twenty-third Psalm, “I will dwelt in the house of the Lord for ever.” Usually, when we are singing that sweetly-solemn hymn,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. “You have all my heart, so I have no secrets from you. ‘If it were not so, I would have told you;’ even in going away from you, I am going away for your good.” Joh_14:2. I go to prepare a place for you.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In my Father’s house are many mansion: if it were not so, I would have told you. “Wicked men will shut you out of my Father’s house below: the temple at Jerusalem, though being still used for Jewish worship after all its ritual and ceremonialism have been abolished, will cease to be my Father’s house to you; but there is a building of God, a house...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I ye to prepare a place for you. 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. Jesus often keeps this promise in many senses. By his gracious spirit, he has come again, by his divine presence in the means of grace, he often comes again. By-and-by, if we die, he will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. There is no room for you on earth; there will be in heaven. If troubles should so multiply that it seems impossible to live in them, you shall be carried away where you shall live above them “In my Father’s house are many mansions.”...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. That is the first and simplest idea of heaven, to be with Christ; and I think it is the last and sublimest idea of heaven, too,—to be with Christ: “that where I am, there ye may be also.”