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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 building, where he has, and will have all his...
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 foregoing chapter, so Thomas, and Philip, and...
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 would at length have told you of it.” Joh_14:2. I go...
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.”
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 reason still keeps him away from us. We are not to...
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, beginning — “For ever with the Lord,” we are...
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.
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 not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, and...
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 come again to meet us; and if we do not die, then...
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.” You may depend upon the love of Christ beloved, for...