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John 14:7
You will know my Father also. To see Jesus is to see the Father. Jesus had been leading them to the Father. Now they are to deliberately come to the Father.
You will know my Father also. To see Jesus is to see the Father. Jesus had been leading them to the Father. Now they are to deliberately come to the Father.
JOHN 14:7 evgnw,kate, me {C} The reading adopted by a majority of the Committee here and in the following set of variants involves a promise: “If you have come to know me [as in fact you do], you sha...
Verse John 14:7. _IF YE HAD KNOWN ME, YE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN MY FATHER_] Because I and the Father are ONE, John 10:30. Or, if ye had properly examined the intention and design of the law, ye would have...
IF YE HAD KNOWN ME - By this Jesus does not intend to say that they were not truly his disciples, but that they had not a full and accurate knowledge of his character and designs. They still retained,...
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....
IF YE HAD KNOWN ME, YE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN MY FATHER ALSO. After over three years under the ministry of Christ they did not yet know him, except in part. The great truth declared is that the way to stud...
"If you had known me, you would have known my Father too. From now on you are beginning to know him, and you have seen him." Philip said to him: "Lord, show us the Father, and that is enough for us....
THE PROMISE OF GLORY (John 14:1-3)...
IF, &c. App-118. KNOWN. App-132. FROM HENCEFORTH. from (Greek. _apo._ App-104. _iv)_ now. SEEN. App-133. Compare 1 John 1:1....
_If ye had known me_ In the better MSS, we have here again two different words for -know" (see on John 7:26; John 8:55; John 13:7), and the emphasis in the first clause is on -known" in the second on...
ΕἸ ἘΓΝΏΚΕΙΤΈ ΜΕ, Κ. Τ. Π. Μ. ἘΓΝΏΚΕΙΤΕ ἌΝ. The better reading is ἊΝ ἬΔΕΙΤΕ: _If ye_ HAD LEARNED TO KNOW _Me, ye_ WOULD KNOW _My Father also_. The change of verb and of order are both significant. see...
VER 5. THOMAS SAID TO HIM, LORD, WE KNOW NOT WHERE YOU GO; AND HOW CAN WE KNOW THE WAY? 6. JESUS SAID TO HIM, I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE: NO MAN COMES TO THE FATHER, BUT BY ME. 7. IF YOU HA...
_THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE -- JOHN 14:6-14:_ The only way to the Father is through Jesus Christ. He is the Way and the Truth and the Life. If the disciples had known who Jesus really is, the Son...
ΈΓΝΏΚΑΤΕ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΓΙΝΊΌΣΚΩ (G1097) знать. Cond. может быть придаточным 1 типа, где условие считается истинным (VA, 294-95), или _прид._ 2 типа, где условие рассматривается как противоречащ...
IF YE HAD KNOWN ME, YE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN, &C.— If "you had an adequate idea of my character, from the miracles that I have performed, and from the marks of goodness, justice, and wisdom, which manifes...
GOING TO PREPARE A PLACE _Text 14:1-7_ 1 Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; fo...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 14:1-11 Below is an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us: — "Our Lord, who knew what was in man, was well aware of what was passing in the minds of...
If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. IF YE HAD KNOWN ME, YE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN MY FATHER ALSO: AND FROM HENCEFORTH, [ ap' (G57...
34 As our Lord is about to leave His beloved disciples, He compresses His ministry into one new precept-love. That was to be their law and their life and make them a light in the world. This should ch...
14:7 henceforth (e-14) As 'now,' ch. 13.19....
HAVE SEEN HIM] not in His absolute nature, which is invisible (John 1:18), but in His character, which is revealed in My Person: see John 6:46, and John 14:9 below....
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,...
IF YE HAD KNOWN ME, YE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN MY FATHER ALSO. — The thought here is made quite plain by what has preceded; but the form in which it is expressed demands attention. The emphasis of the first...
IX. _ THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE._ "Thomas saith unto Him, Lord, we know not whither Thou goest; how know we the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life: no one com...
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...
to John 14:31 comprise one continuous conversation, introduced by Jesus' announcement (John 13:31-35) of His speedy departure....
He is the essential knowledge, εἰ ἐγνώκειτέ με … Some press the distinction between ἐγνώκειτε and ἤδειτε, “the first representing a knowledge acquired and progressive; the second a knowledge perceptiv...
_A second interruption occasioned by Thomas_....
JESUS, THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE John 14:1-11 As He neared the end, our Lord could speak of little else than the Father. Heaven was His Father's house, where a prepared mansion awaits each of...
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...
(e) If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. (e) It is plain by this verse that to know God and to see God is the same thing. Now wh...
_If you know me, you would surely [1] have known my Father also. That is, (says St. John Chrysostom; St. Cyril; &c.) did you know me to be his true, and eternal Son, you would always know him to be 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...
VER. 7. “ _If you had known me, you would have known my Father also; and from henceforth you know him and have seen him._ ” This verse reproduces the idea of the last clause of the preceding verse, th...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 1-11. 1. The discourse which occupies the fourteenth chapter is apparently suggested by the thought expressed in John 13:36: “Thou canst not follow me now...
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. (2) 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. (3) And if...
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...
_CHARACTERISTICS OF TRUTH_ ‘I am the truth.’ John 14:6 What does Jesus mean by this claim? What is the truth of which He is speaking? In order to understand this aright, we must understand what ar...
_THE CHRIST LIFE_ ‘I am the Life.’ John 14:6 ‘I am the Life,’ Jesus said. How is this true of Him? I. HE IS THE PATTERN LIFE.—Never was a life of man lived like His life. All are agreed about this...
7._If you had known me. _He confirms what we have just now said, that it is a foolish and pernicious curiosity, when men, not satisfied with him, attempt to go to God by indirect and crooked paths. (6...
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...
IF YE HAD KNOWN ME,.... Christ having made mention of his Father's house, and of himself, as the way thither, and the way of access to the Father, was willing to inform his disciples better concerning...
If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Ver. 7. _And from henceforth ye know him_] Or else the more shame for you, having had me ...
_If ye had known me_ As ye might and ought to have known me. If ye had earnestly sought and obtained that knowledge of me which is communicated by the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, (Ephesians 1:17,...
KNOWN MY FATHER; the reason of this is, their oneness; he being the brightness of the Father's glory, and the express image of his person. Chapter John 10:30; HEBREWS 1:3. FROM HENCEFORTH YE KNOW HIM;...
An interruption by Thomas:...
IF YE HAD KNOWN ME, YE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN MY FATHER ALSO; AND FROM HENCEFORTH YE KNOW HIM, AND HAVE SEEN HIM. Thomas was but expressing the thoughts of the majority of the disciples; he acted, in a way...
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...
1-11 Here are three words, upon any of which stress may be laid. Upon the word troubled. Be not cast down and disquieted. The word heart. Let your heart be kept with full trust in God. The word your....
If ye had known me as you ought to have known me, as I am indeed the eternal Son of God, sent by my Father into the world, you should have known my Father, with whom I am equal, and one and the same G...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III And again, the Lord replied to Philip, who wished to behold the Father, "Have I been so long a time with you, and yet thou hast not known Me, Philip? He that sees M...
John 14:7 If G1487 known G1097 (G5715) Me G3165 G302 known G1097 (G5715) My G3450 Father G
“If you had fully known me you would have known my Father as well. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.” Jesus now confirms His uniqueness. The question is, have they fully known Him? Le...
THEIR CERTAINTY FOR THE FUTURE LIES IN THEIR KNOWING HIM AS THE ONE WHO IS THE WAY TO THE FATHER AND IS THE ONE WHO FULLY REVEALS THE FATHER (JOHN 14:4). Having made clear their final destiny Jesus no...
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 14:7. IF YE HAD LEARNED TO KNOW ME, YE WOULD KNOW MY FATHER also. The change in this verse from ‘the Father' of John 14:6 to ‘my Father,' as well as the use in the original of two different verbs...
IF YE HAD KNOWN ME (ε εγνωκειτε με). Past perfect indicative of γινωσκω, to know by personal experience, in condition of second class as is made plain by the conclusion (αν ηιδετε) where οιδα, not...
John 14:1. _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. John 14:1. _Ye believe in God,...
This is a chapter which I suppose most of us know by heart, full of comfort, a very river of delight. Remember that our Lord spoke this to his own beloved ones to the inner circle. It was not address...
We have often read this chapter, both in our private meditations, and at our public worship; but we cannot read it too often. It is sweet as honey and the honeycomb. It contains the very quintessence...
I suppose that many of you know this chapter by heart. I notice that, in all old Christians' Bibles, this leaf is well worn, sometimes worn out. We have here our Lord's homely talk to his disciples; i...
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...
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...
1-31 CHAPTER 14 _Let not your heart_, &c. Christ saw that the minds of His disciples were troubled, _i.e_. anxious and sorrowful, because He had foretold them that His own departure and Passion, thro...
_If ye had known Me_, &c. Christ meets an objection. The disciples might have objected, "Thou, 0 Christ, declarest that Thou art the _way_, but the Father is the _goal_ to which thou goest. But we do...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 14:1. The discourse begun at John 13:31 is here continued. Here our Lord not merely answers fully Peter’s question, “Whither goest Thou?” (John 13:36), but speaks...
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...
2 Corinthians 4:6; Colossians 1:15; Colossians 2:2; Colossians 2:3;...
Had known [ε γ ν ω κ ε ι τ ε]. Rather, had learned to know, through my successive revelations of myself. Ye should have known [ε γ ω κ ε ι τ ε α ν]. The same verb as above. Some editors, however, rea...
THE COMFORT CHAPTER John 14:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS How wonderful it is that our Lord Jesus Christ could give forth such words of comfort in the hour when He, Himself, was hastening on toward the angu...
THE COMFORT CHAPTER John 14:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We remember the statement, "Never man spake like this Man." These words were true from many viewpoints. However, of all the wonderful things which ou...
Ye have known — Ye have begun to know him....
Observe here, 1. What. gross conception the apostles had, and St. Philip in particular, of the divine nature and being, as if God the Father could be seen with mortal eyes. SHEW US THE FATHER, AND IT...