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(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 materialistic conception then and now.
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....
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...
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....
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...
THE PROMISE OF GLORY (John 14:1-3)...
"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...
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"....
_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
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
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...
_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...
ΕΊΔΈΝΑΙ _perf. act. inf. от_ ΟΊΔΑ, _см._ John 14:4. _Inf._ в роли дополнения основного гл....
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...
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...
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...
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...
14:5 know (d-7) know (d-16) _ Oida_ . as ch. 7.29....
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
to John 14:31 comprise one continuous conversation, introduced by Jesus' announcement (John 13:31-35) of His speedy departure....
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...
_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...
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...
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...
“ _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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
THOMAS SAITH UNTO HIM, LORD, WE KNOW NOT WHITHER THOU GOEST; AND HOW CAN WE KNOW THE WAY?...
An interruption by Thomas:...
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....
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...
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]...
John 14:5 Thomas G2381 said G3004 (G5719) Him G846 Lord G2962 not G3756 know G1492 (G5758) where...
‘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...
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...
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...
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._ 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 14:1. _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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
_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...
Hebrews 5:11; Hebrews 5:12; John 15:12; John 20:25; Luke 24:25;...
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...
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...
Thomas saith — Taking him in a gross sense....
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...