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Verse John 14:5. _LORD, WE KNOW NOT_] Thomas, perhaps, thought that
our Lord only spoke of his going some distance from the place where he
then was....
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WE KNOW NOT WHITHER THOU GOEST - Though Jesus had so often told them
of his approaching death and resurrection, yet it seems they did not
understand him, nor did they fully comprehend him until after...
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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. ...
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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....
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THOMAS SAITH UNTO HIM, LORD, WE KNOW NOT, ETC.
Thomas,. plain, honest apostle, lost all hope when the Lord died; nor
could he believe in the resurrection until he saw with his own eyes.
Now he declar...
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THE PROMISE OF GLORY (John 14:1-3)...
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"And you know the way to where I go." Thomas said to him: "Lord, we do
not know where you are going. How do we know the way?" Jesus said to
him: "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to...
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THOMAS. See App-94 and App-141.
UNTO. to. Lord. App-98. A.
NOT. Greek. _ou._ App-105.
CAN, &c. The texts read, "know we"....
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_Thomas_ Nothing is to be inferred from the omission of -Didymus" here
(comp. John 11:16; John 20:24; John 21:2). For his character see on
John 11:16. His question her
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ΘΩΜΑ͂Σ. Nothing is to be inferred from the omission of
Δίδυμος here (comp. John 11:16; John 20:24; John 21:2). For his
character see on John 11:16. His question here
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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...
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_IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE -- JOHN 14:1-5:_ Jesus is the way to the Father.
Jesus wanted the hearts of the disciples to be filled with faith
instead of distressed. It was the desire of the Master that they...
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ΕΊΔΈΝΑΙ _perf. act. inf. от_ ΟΊΔΑ, _см._ John 14:4.
_Inf._ в роли дополнения основного гл....
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LORD, WE KNOW NOT WHITHER THOU GOEST;— "We know not where thy
Father's house stands, and consequently cannot know the way to it." It
is probable that Thomas might think that Christ intended to remove...
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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...
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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...
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Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how
can we know the way?
THOMAS SAITH UNTO HIM, LORD, WE KNOW NOT WHERE THOU GOEST; AND HOW
CAN WE KNOW THE WAY? [The reading of thi...
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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...
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14:5 know (d-7) know (d-16) _ Oida_ . as ch. 7.29....
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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...
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THOMAS] For the character of Thomas see John 11:16; John 20:25. Thomas
expected an immediate manifestation of the Messianic kingdom on earth,
and this prevented him from understanding Jesus.
6, 7. 'Th...
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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,...
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THOMAS SAITH UNTO HIM. — Comp., for the character of Thomas, John
11:16; John 20:24; John 21:2.
LORD, WE KNOW NOT WHITHER THOU GOEST. — Our Lord’s words had laid
stress upon the “way.” Thomas lays str...
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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...
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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...
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to John 14:31 comprise one continuous conversation, introduced by
Jesus' announcement (John 13:31-35) of His speedy departure....
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But this statement bewilders the despondent Thomas, who gloomily
interjects: Κύριε … εἰδέναι; Thomas' difficulty is that
not knowing the goal they cannot know the way. In the reply of Jesus
both the g...
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_A second interruption occasioned by Thomas_....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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“ _Thomas says to him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest, and how
do we know the way?_ 6. _Jesus says to him, I am the way and the truth
and the life; no one comes to the Father but by me._ ”
Peter...
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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...
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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...
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_HEAVEN_
‘I go to prepare a place for you.’
John 14:2
Jesus Christ Himself is our home, our furniture, our resting-place all
in one.
I. WE LIVE IN HIM.—‘Thou art a place to hide me in.’ It was the...
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5._Thomas saith to him_. Though, at first sight, the reply of _Thomas
_appears to contradict what Christ had said, yet he did not intend to
give the lie to his Master. But it may be asked, In what sen...
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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...
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THOMAS SAITH UNTO HIM, LORD,.... Who was one of his apostles, and here
betrays his ignorance, as elsewhere his unbelief; and not only speaks
for himself, but for the rest of the apostles, of whom he j...
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Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how
can we know the way?
Ver. 5. _Lord, we know not whither thou goest, &c._] No, Thomas?
what, are ye also ignorant? They knew, but k...
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_Thomas saith_ Taking him in a gross sense; _Lord, we know not whither
thou goest_ “As their thoughts turned very much on a temporal
kingdom, they might imagine that their Master intended to remove to...
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THOMAS SAITH UNTO HIM, LORD, WE KNOW NOT WHITHER THOU GOEST; AND HOW
CAN WE KNOW THE WAY?...
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An interruption by Thomas:...
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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...
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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....
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Reason tells every one, that he who knoweth not the term whither a
person is going, must needs be ignorant of the way. It is plain, that
Thomas, and so (probably) divers others of the apostles,
notwit...
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Tertullian Against Praxeas
If ye had known me, ye would have known the Father also: but
henceforth ye know Him, and have seen Him."[326]...
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‘Thomas says to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going.
How can we know the way?” '
Thomas now speaks up for all. (We note here the equality between the
Apostles). While Jesus was there, there...
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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...
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John 14:5. THOMAS SAITH UNTO HIM, LORD, WE KNOW NOT WHITHER THOU GOEST
AWAY: HOW DO WE KNOW THE WAY? In John 14:4, Jesus had spoken of
‘going away,' not of ‘going,' as in John 14:3. The idea of
separa...
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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...
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WHITHER
(που)-- HOW (πως). It is Thomas, not Peter (John 13:36) who
renews the doubt about the destination of Jesus including the path or
way thither (την οδον). Thomas is the spokesman for the
mat...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THOMAS SAID TO HIM. "Lord, we expected you to be our King in
Jerusalem. We do not understand." I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE
LIFE. No one can come to God, either in heaven or on earth, except
throu...
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_Whither I go ye know_
THE INTERPELLATION OF THOMAS
Observe
I. THAT A MAN MAY, IN SPIRITUAL THINGS, KNOW MORE THAN HE IS CONSCIOUS
OF KNOWING. “Ye know,” “We know not.” It may be said that our
Lord...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Hebrews 5:11; Hebrews 5:12; John 15:12; John 20:25; Luke 24:25;...
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And how can we know [κ α ι π ω ς δ υ ν α μ ε θ α τ η
ν ο δ ο ν ε ι δ ε ν α ι]. The best texts substitute
oidamen, know we, for dunameqa, can we; reading, how know we the way.
So Rev. Some also omit an...
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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...
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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...
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Thomas saith — Taking him in a gross sense....
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Observe here, 1. How Thomas, and probably divers others of the
apostles, notwithstanding all that Christ had said to the contrary,
did still dream of. temporal kingdom, and supposed him to speak of
so...