John 14:23. Jesus answered and said unto him, If any one love me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. Again the thought of John 14:15, and a fuller expression of the main teaching of this chapter, and, indeed, of this whole section of the Gospel. The answer to Judas is, that the manifestation referred to must be limited, because it can only be made where there is that communion of love which proves itself by the spirit of self-denial and submission to the charge of Jesus (comp. John 14:17; John 14:21). Two additional points are to be noted (I) The climax: no longer ‘I' but ‘We,' a fuller presentation of the truth. (2) The beginning of the discourse is taken up again, and thus its parts are more closely united: ‘In my Father's house are many places of abode' (John 14:2); ‘We will make our abode with him.'

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