Another, Comforter; another than myself, one who shall make good to you the loss of my personal presence. This is the first time that the word "Comforter" is applied, in the Scriptures, to the Holy Ghost. The Greek word, which occurs only in writings of John, means both advocate-as it is rendered in 1 John 2:1, where it is applied to Christ-and Comforter. The Holy Spirit is the Counsellor and Guide, as well as the Comforter of God's people.
Verse John 14:16. _I WILL PRAY THE FATHER_] After having made an atonement for the sin of the world, I will become the _Mediator_ between God and man; and through my _mediation_ and _intercession_ sha...
I WILL PRAY THE FATHER - This refers to his intercession after his death and ascension to heaven, for this prayer was to be connected with their keeping his commandments. In what way he makes interces...
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....
AND. WILL PRAY THE FATHER. Rather "request" the Father. There are three Greek verbs used in the New Testament which mean respectively, "request," "ask," and "entreat." Christ never uses the last in h...
"If you love me, keep my commandments; and I will ask the Father and he will give you another helper to be with you for ever, I mean the Spirit of Truth. The world cannot receive him, because it does...
THE PROMISE OF GLORY (John 14:1-3)...
PRAY. Greek. _erotao._ App-134. Not _aiteo_ as in John 14:18. See 1 John 5:16, where both words are used. SHALL. will. ANOTHER. Greek. _allos._ App-124. COMFORTER. Greek. _parakletos,_ rendered "Adv...
_And I will pray the Father_ -I" is emphatic: -you do your part on earth, and I will do mine in Heaven." Our translators have once more rightly made a distinction but an inadequate one (see on John 13...
ἮΙ for μένῃ (from John 14:17). Authorities differ as to the position of ἮΙ, whether before or after ΜΕΘ' ὙΜΩ͂Ν, or after ΑἸΩ͂ΝΑ. 16. ΚἈΓῺ ἘΡ. Εγώ is emphatic: ‘you do your part on earth, and I will do...
VER 1A. 15. IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS. 16. AND I WILL PRAY THE FATHER, AND HE SHALL GIVE YOU ANOTHER COMFORTER, THAT HE MAY ABIDE WITH YOU FOR EVER; 17. EVEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH; WHOM THE W...
_LOVE LEADS TO OBEDIENCE -- JOHN 14:15-24:_ Now we come to recognize the path by which we enjoy God's blessings. Jesus said, "If you love me, you will do as I command you." "He that hath my commandmen...
ΈΡΩΤΉΣΩ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΈΡΩΤΆΩ (G2065) просить. Обычно относится к молитвам Самого Иисуса (Bernard), ΠΑΡΆΚΛΗΤΟΣ (G3875) защитник, утешитель. О значении этого термина _см._ Brown, 2:1135-44; MNTW;...
DISCOURSE: 1687 THE GIFT OF THE SPIRIT AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO OBEDIENCE 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 a...
HE SHALL GIVE YOU ANOTHER COMFORTER,— Or, _another advocate._ The word παρακλητον, signifies an _advocate_ or a _monitor,_ as well as a _comforter;_ and it is evident that the blessed Spirit maintaine...
GOING TO SEND THE STRENGTHENER AND REVEALER _Text 14:15-24_ 15 If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 14:12-20 Below is an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— At first reading there does not appear to be much direct connection between the several...
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; AND I WILL ... The connection between this and what before is apt to escape observation. Bu...
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...
14:16 beg (a-4) In the latter chapters of John's Gospel, in order to maintain the distinction, frequently important, between _ erotao_ and _ aiteo_ , the first is translated 'demand' [except John 14:...
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...
ANOTHER COMFORTER] RM 'Advocate,' or, 'Helper.' Attractive, and suitable to the context, as the rendering 'Comforter' is, there can be little doubt that the true meaning of the Gk. _Paracletos_ is 'Ad...
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 I WILL PRAY THE FATHER. — Comp. Note on John 16:26. The pronoun is again emphatic — “I have given you your part to do. I on My part will pray the Father.” The word used for “pray” is one which imp...
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...
X. _ THE FATHER SEEN IN CHRIST._ "Philip saith unto Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so longtime with you, and dost thou not know Me, Philip? he th...
to John 14:31 comprise one continuous conversation, introduced by Jesus' announcement (John 13:31-35) of His speedy departure....
_The second encouragement: the promise of another Paraclete_....
THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH John 14:12-24 There is no adequate translation for the word _Paraclete._ It may be rendered “interpreter,” “comforter,” “advocate,” but no one word suffices. The Greek means “one...
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...
Paraclete. This is a comforter: or also an advocate: inasmuch as by inspiring prayer, he prays, as it were, in us, and pleads for us. --- For ever. Hence it is evident, that this spirit of truth was n...
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. 15-24. 1. The meaning of the word παράκλητος has been much discussed. It is evidently founded upon the verb παρακαλεῖν as a verbal adjective, and the fund...
“ _If you love me, keep my commandments._ 16. _And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another support, that he may abide with you eternally_, 17. _the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot...
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; (17) Even the spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither...
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...
_THE MISSION OF THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH_ ‘If ye love Me, ye will keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may be with you for ever, even the Spir...
16._And I will pray to the Father. _This was given as a remedy for soothing the grief which they might feel on account of Christ’s absence; but at the same time, Christ promises that he will give them...
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 I WILL PRAY THE FATHER,...., Here Christ speaks as Mediator, and promises his disciples, that he would intercede for them with the Father; which is designed as an encouragement to them to ask for...
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Ver. 16. _And he shall give you another Comforter_] Or, pleader, deprecator, advocate, παρακλ...
_If ye love me_ As ye profess to do, _keep my commandments_ For that will be a surer test and more acceptable expression of your regard for me than all your trouble and concern at parting with me. Kee...
OF LOVE AND LIFE. The coming of the Comforter:...
AND I WILL PRAY THE FATHER, AND HE SHALL GIVE YOU ANOTHER COMFORTER THAT HE MAY ABIDE WITH YOU FOREVER,...
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...
12-17 Whatever we ask in Christ's name, that shall be for our good, and suitable to our state, he shall give it to us. To ask in Christ's name, is to plead his merit and intercession, and to depend u...
OLBGrk; This verse containeth a new argument by which our Saviour relieveth his disciples under their affliction for the want of his bodily presence; that is, the mission of the Holy Spirit, ANOTHER C...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Philippians And there is also one Paraclete.[15] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III [of the evangelical dispensation] presented by John's Gospel, in which the Lord promis...
John 14:16 And G2532 I G1473 pray G2065 (G5692) Father G3962 and G2532 give G1325 (G5692) you...
“He will give you another paraclete, that he may be with you for ever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive for it neither sees him in such a way as to recognise him, nor does it kn...
THEY MUST KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS AND HE WILL RESPOND BY GIVING THEM THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH FOR THEIR HELP AND STRENGTHENING (JOHN 14:15). Central to what the disciples are to receive is their obedience. T...
2). THE DEMANDS THAT HE MAKES AND THE PROVISION THAT HE IS MAKING FOR THEIR FULFILMENT (JOHN 14:12). Jesus now stresses what He is expecting from His disciples and assures them that full provision has...
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 14:16. AND I WILL ASK THE FATHER, AND HE WILL GIVE YOU ANOTHER ADVOCATE, THAT HE MAY BE WITH YOU FOR EVER. The word here translated in our English Version ‘Comforter,' and partially introduced in...
AND I WILL PRAY THE FATHER (καγω ερωτησω τον πατερα). Ερωταω for prayer, not question (the old use), also in John 16:23 (prayer to Jesus in same sense as αιτεω), John 14:26 (by Jesus as here); John...
COMFORTER Greek, "Parakletos", meaning "one called alongside to help." Translated "advocate," (1 John 2:1). Christ is the believer's Paraclete with the Father when he sins; the Holy Spirit the believ...
John 14:16 Consider how in His residence with the Church the Holy Spirit has verified this title, "The Spirit of Truth." What reasons have we for concluding that this Comforter who descended at Pente...
John 14:16 I. The Holy Spirit is promised as another Comforter. This surely indicates, not a new office to be discharged, but an old one, or one already subsisting, to be discharged by a new person. T...
John 14:15 The Christian the Temple of God I. This is the misery of sin, that it brings what is so unholy, so close, into the Presence of the All-Holy. Sin begins in thought, yet thought is of the so...
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...
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...
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;_ Is it not very sweet to think that the Spi...
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...
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...
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...
I WILL ASK THE FATHER. See notes on Acts 1:4-5. ANOTHER HELPER. Jesus himself is the _means_ by which our sins are forgiven (1 John 2:2), and only he is the one who brings God and man together [the "g...
_I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter_ THE PRAYING CHRIST, THE GIVING FATHER, AND THE ABIDING SPIRIT The “and” shows us that these words are a consequence of some precedin...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 14:16 The Holy Spirit (compare v. John 14:26), the SPIRIT OF TRUTH who will guide the disciples into all truth ...
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 14:15. 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...
1 John 2:1; 2 Thessalonians 2:16; Acts 13:52; Acts 9:31; Colossians 3:3
I will pray [ε ρ ω τ η σ ω]. See on 11 22. Comforter [π α ρ α κ λ η τ ο ν]. Only in John's Gospel and First Epistle (xiv. 16, 26; 1Pe 14:26; 1Pe 16:7; 1 Ephesians 2:13. From para, to the side of, and...
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...
And I will ask the Father — John 14:21, shows the connection between this and the preceding verses. And he will give you another Comforter — The Greek word signifies also an advocate, instructer, or e...
Are Muslims right in referring this promise of the coming “helper” to Mohammed? PROBLEM: Muslim scholars see in this reference of the promised “Helper” (Gk., parakl?tos) a prediction of Mohammed, bec...
Christ comforteth his disciples here, with. promise of the mission of the Holy Spirit, to supply the want of his bodily presence. Where observe, 1. The procurer of this blessing, and that is Christ,...