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John 14:29
And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
Verse John 14:29. _I HAVE TOLD YOU BEFORE IT COME TO PASS_] Lest my death should be a stumbling-block to you, I have spoken of it beforehand, and showed you the necessity of it, that when it happens...
BEFORE IT COME TO PASS - Before my death, resurrection, and ascension. YE MIGHT BELIEVE - You might be confirmed or strengthened in faith by the evidence which I gave that I came from God - the power...
CHAPTER 14 1. Let not Your Heart be Troubled! (John 14:1 .) 2. I Am in the Father and the Father in Me. (John 14:8 .) 3. The Other Comforter Promised. (John 14:15 .) 4. I Go unto the Father. ...
John 14:1 takes up the thoughts of the previous paragraph, not of the last verse. The thoughts of separation and treachery had led to perplexity, if not despair. Jesus bids them trust God and Himself....
HAVE TOLD YOU BEFORE IT COME TO PASS. Told you of my going away that "when it is come you may believe," by knowing that. foresaw it all the time and that it was. part of my plan that. should go away....
THE PROMISE OF GLORY (John 14:1-3)...
"I have spoken these things to you while to you while I am still with you. The Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that...
NOW. Greek. _nee._ See John 12:27. BELIEVE. App-150....
_ye might believe_ Better, _ye_ MAY _believe_. The brevity of the expression makes it ambiguous. It may mean either, -ye may believe _that I am He_" (as in John 13:19), in which case -I have told you...
ΠΙΣΤΕΎΣΗΤΕ. Comp. John 13:19 and see on John 1:7. By foretelling the trouble Jesus turns a stumblingblock into an aid to faith....
Ver 27. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 28. You have heard how I said to you, I go away, and come again to you. If you loved me, you would rejoice, because I said, I go to th...
_TRUE PEACE FROM THE LORD -- JOHN 14:25-31:_ Jesus had spent over three years teaching the apostles concerning the will of God. Now the Father would send the Holy Spirit as a Comforter, Strengthener,...
ΕΊΡΗΚΑ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ, _см._ John 14:28. _Perf._ подчеркивает завершенность действия. Здесь Христос предсказывает действие до его совершения, ΠΡΊΝ (G4250) прежде, используется с _inf._ для...
I HAVE TOLD YOU BEFORE IT COME TO PASS,— "I have foretold my removal hence, my return to the Father, and the descent of the Spirit, in order that when these things happen, your faith, instead of being...
GOING TO LEAVE PEACE AND OVERCOMING POWER _Text 14:25-31_ 25 These things have I spoken unto you, while yet abiding with you. 26 But the Comforter, even the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 14:21-31 The following is an Analysis of the closing section of John 14: 1. Christ manifested to the believer, verse 21. That the central design of Christ in t...
And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe. AND NOW I HAVE TOLD YOU BEFORE IT COME TO PASS - referring to His departure to the Father, and the...
28 In the East they do not say, as we do, "I am going", but rather "I am going and returning" when spealctng of an ordinary journey. So the Lord assures them that He was not about to leave them perman...
THE COMFORTER 1-31. The mansions in heaven. The mission of the Comforter. This great discourse, which is not easily susceptible of formal subdivision, deals with five main subjects: (1) the heavenly...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 14 JESUS IS THE WAY TO GOD THE *FATHER 14:1-14 V1 Jesus said to his *disciples, ‘Do not worry! Trust God. And trust me,...
AND NOW I HAVE TOLD YOU BEFORE IT COME TO PASS. — Comp. John 13:19. Here, again, He tells them the event before the accomplishment, that it may serve to strengthen their faith. Two interpretations of...
VIII. _ JESUS ANNOUNCES HIS DEPARTURE._ "When therefore he was gone out, Jesus saith, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him; and God shall glorify Him in Himself, and straightw...
XI. _ THE BEQUEST OF PEACE._ "Judas (not Iscariot) saith unto Him, Lord, what is come to pass that Thou wilt manifest Thyself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a ma...
to John 14:31 comprise one continuous conversation, introduced by Jesus' announcement (John 13:31-35) of His speedy departure....
_The conversation closed by bequest of peace_. The genuineness of this report of the last words of Jesus is guaranteed by the frequency with which He seems to be on the point of breaking off. The cons...
καὶ νῦν … πιστεύσητε. “I have told you now before it came to pass,” _i.e._, He has told them of His departure, that they might not be terrified or depressed by its occurrence, but might recognise it a...
CHRIST'S GIFT OF PEACE John 14:25-31 Our Lord gives the fourfold basis of His peace: (1) The vision of the Father. Throughout these wonderful Chapter s He seems able to speak of nothing else. If we l...
There is no real break between the end of chapter 13 and beginning of chapter 14. Therefore continuing, while now including all the disciples, He charged them not to let their heart be troubled. He th...
CHAPTER 23 THE VALEDICTORY SERMON John 14-16. Now that the Passover meal has been enjoyed, and that celebrated Mosaic institution totally eclipsed by bloody Calvary, normally verified and abolished f...
1. The phrase ταῦτα λελάληκα is repeated several times in these Chapter s, and evidently refers, in each case, to the entire section which precedes. Here, the reference is to the whole discourse of th...
“ _Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives, do I give it to you; let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid._ 28. _You have heard how I said to you, I go a...
VER. 29. This disappearance of Jesus, so contrary to their thoughts, might in itself shake their faith; but Jesus applies to this trial what He had said of the treachery of Judas: through the fact tha...
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 Father: for my Father is greater than I. (29) And now I have told...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
29._And I have told you now. _It was proper that the disciples should be frequently admonished on this point; for it was a secret far exceeding all human capacity. He testifies that he _foretells what...
The Lord now begins to discourse with them in view of His departure. He was going where they could not come. To human sight they would be left alone upon the earth. It is to the sense of this apparent...
AND NOW I HAVE TOLD YOU BEFORE IT CAME TO PASS,.... This is a strong proof of his true and proper deity, for none but the omniscient God can tell of things before they come to pass; this is peculiar t...
And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe. Ver. 29. _And now I have told you before_] Which none beside God himself could do, but by divine revel...
_If ye loved me_ With a wise and rational affection, it would allay your sorrows in the mean time, and howsoever you might have a mournful sense of your own loss; _you would rejoice_ on my account, _b...
HAVE TOLD YOU; of my departure from you by the death of the cross. YE MIGHT BELIEVE; that is, more fully: might have your faith in me greatly strengthened by witnessing the fulfilment of my words....
MINISTRY OF ENCOURAGEMENT CENTERED IN CHRIST PERSONALLY (vs.1-6) Had the Lord spoken the last words of chapter 13 with the object of discouraging Peter? By no means. For His next words are "Let not y...
28-31 Christ raises the expectations of his disciples to something beyond what they thought was their greatest happiness. His time was now short, he therefore spake largely to them. When we come to b...
Evils that surprise us are always the most heavy, and load our spirits. Saith our Saviour, Before these things come to pass, I have given you notice of them, that, when you see them come to pass, you...
John 14:29 And G2532 now G3568 told G2046 (G5758) you G5213 before G4250 comes G1096 (G5635) that...
“And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe”. He is telling them here that, before it happens, He is preparing them for the amazing change that will take p...
3). CLOSING WORDS OF COMFORT (JOHN 14:27). Jesus ends these words of strengthening and encouraging with further assurances. They will enjoy His peace, and are to recognise that it is good that He is...
John 14:29. AND NOW I HAVE TOLD YOU BEFORE IT COME TO PAST, THAT, WHEN IT IS COME TO PAN, YE MAY BELIEVE (comp. on chap. John 13:19). It is not a first faith, but the deeper working of faith, the expe...
Judas has now gone out; Jesus is alone with the disciples whom He loved; and the last disturbing element has been removed from the midst of the little company. But the hour is come when the servants m...
John 14:1. _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,...
Let us read that well-known and most blessed chapter, John 14:1, which so clearly shows our Saviour's tender consideration for the comfort of his people, lest the great grief excited in them by his im...
John 14:1. _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 w...
John 14:15. _If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever, Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world can...
John 14:15. _If ye love me, keep my commandments._ We cannot expect the Holy Spirit to dwell with us unless we are obedient to the commands of Christ. Our Saviour here tells us much about the spirit...
In this «sacred farewell» talk of our Lord's, he gives us many a revelation of the soul's way of intercourse with him. John 14:21. He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them. he it is that loveth...
CONTENTS: Jesus foretells His second coming and promises the Holy Spirit to believers. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Thomas, disciples, Philip, Judas. CONCLUSION: Jesus is the way let us foll...
John 14:1. _Let not your heart be troubled._ Our Saviour having denounced Judas as a traitor, and plainly spoken of his own departure out of the world, left no jewish hope of a temporal kingdom; sorro...
_If ye loved Me, ye would rejoice, because I said I go unto the Father_ THE DEATH OF THE GOOD A REASON FOR JOY Note the view which Christ had of His death. “I go.” 1. Whence? From the world. 2. W...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 14:15. KEEP MY COMMANDMENT.—“Ask in My name. Keep My,” etc. These go together. We can only truly pray in His name when we _keep,_ etc. John 14:16. ἐγὼ ἐρωτήσω.—T...
EXPOSITION JOHN 14:1 It is not necessary to follow Codex D and some of the versions, and here introduce into the text καὶ εἶπεν τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ._ _It is enough that the awful warning to Pe...
Jesus said, Let not your heart be troubled (John 14:1): Now, they were troubled because He had been saying these things. "I'm going to go away; where I go you cannot come." He's been talking about H...
John 13:19; John 16:31; John 16:4; Matthew 24:24; Matthew 24:25...
THE MINISTRY OF THE SPIRIT John 14:26; _John 16:7_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS Christ came to His own, and His own received Him not. The Holy Spirit came to His own, seeking to bring every possible spiritual...
I have told you — Of my going and return....
The time of our Saviour's death now nearer and nearer approaching, he prepares the expectation of his disciples for it, because evils that surprize us suddenly, do sink our spirits sadly: whereas what...