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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 there you may be also: and behold my glory, and be...
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
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.”
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. And he will come again, beloved. That is our grandest hope. We are looking for his coming. It is very sweet to know that we shall be for ever with the Lord if we die before his coming; but still the hope of God’s people is the coming of the Lord, the resurrection of the...
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. Do not tell us about a purgatory for Christ’s people, a limbo in which they are to be awhile to be prepared to share his glory. No, he will come at the right time, and take them to be where he is, and they shall have the very place that Jesus has: “I will come again, and...
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. “I will come to you by my Spirit. I will come to you by-and-by, if my Father shall purpose it, in the hour of death; or if not, I will come in person at my second advent; but, in any case, I will be sure to come. My dear children, I am going away, but it is only for a...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; “I will not send an angel to fetch you, but I will myself come for you. If you die, I will come for you in that way; but if you live on until my Second Advent, ‘I will come again, and receive you unto myself.’” Joh_14:3. That where I am, there ye may be also. “So do not be troubled because I am going away...
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
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. Oh! this is ground for sweet comfort, and it ought to yield it to us tonight. He has gone, but he will come again; he has not left us for ever. Space divides us for awhile; but, skipping over the mountains like a roe and a young hart, he will come again, even to this...