01-23-22
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(Heb 13:2) Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some
have entertained angels unawares.
I AM THE WAY, AND THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE
(John 14:1-4) Let not your heart [fig. the thoughts or feelings (mind)]
be troubled [Gk: stirred up or agitated]: ye believe in God, believe
also in me. In my Father's [God’s] house [Kingdom] are many
mansions [Dict: large, imposing houses; stately residences] [for
important persons]: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to
prepare [Gk: make ready] a place [Gk: home; specif. a scabbard] for
you. And if I go and prepare a place for you [a 2x emphatic
phrase], I will come again [i.e., His Second Coming from “in us” (Mary
& Rom 8:18 & 2 Thess 1:5-12)], and receive you [as a scabbard,
a covering (skin, husk, coating)] unto myself [the Word of God (John
1:14), the Sword of the Lord]; that where I am, there ye may be also
[i.e., together]. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
(John 14:5-7) Thomas [Chaldee: the twin] [a man of two minds, i.e.,
Jerusalem] saith unto him, Lord [Gk: kurios; supreme in authority], we
know [Gk: understand] not whither [Gk: where] thou goest; and how can
we know [Gk: understand] the way [Gk: (the) road] [i.e., the path that
must be trodden (walked)]? Jesus [Heb: Jehovah-saved] saith unto him, I
am the way, the truth, and the life [i.e., eternal happiness and joy]:
no man cometh unto the Father [in Heaven], but by [Gk: the channel of
an act; through] me. If ye had known [Gk: understood] me, ye should
have known [Gk: understood] my Father also: and from henceforth ye know
him [Father God], and have seen him [in Me].
1. truth: Dict. = that which is true; a statement,
etc., that accords with fact or reality.
(John 14:8-11) Philip [Gk: fond of horses] saith unto him, Lord [Gk:
kurios; supreme in authority], shew us the Father, and it sufficeth
[Gk: (will) satisfy] us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time
with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me
[Gk: discerned clearly (physically and/or mentally: perceived, taken
heed (of)] hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the
Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in
me? the words [Gk: rhema] [i.e., revelations] that I speak unto you I
speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the
works [Gk: deeds] [miracles]. Believe me that I am in the Father, and
the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' [Gk: deeds]
[miracles] sake.
(John 14:12-14) Verily [truth], verily [truth], I say unto you, He that
believeth on me, the works [Gk: deeds] [miracles] that I do shall he do
also; and greater works [Gk: deeds] [miracles] than these shall he do;
because I go unto my Father [I shall die, and thereby shall (bestow,
confer, bequeath) My Holy Spirit unto you]. And whatsoever ye shall ask
in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the
Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name [a 2x emphatic phrase], I
will do it.
JESUS PROMISES THE HOLY SPIRIT
(John 14:15-20) If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray
the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter [Gk: intercessor,
consoler: advocate], that he may abide [Gk: dwell] with you for ever
[Gk: for perpetuity: eternally]; Even the Spirit of truth; whom
the world [Gk: kosmos; “cosmos”] [universe] cannot receive, because it
seeth [Gk: discerns, acknowledges, perceives] him not, neither knoweth
[Gk: understands] him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with [Gk: near]
you [“for the Holy Ghost was not yet given” John 7:39], and shall be in
you [Rom 8:18,19 & 2 Thess 1:5-12]. I will not leave you
comfortless: I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world [Gk:
kosmos; “cosmos”] [universe] seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I
live, ye shall live also. At that day [of My Second Coming] ye shall
know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
(John 14:21) He that hath [Gk: (a) hold (on)] my commandments, and
keepeth [Gk: (watches); guards (from loss or injury): serves] them, he
it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my
Father, and I will love him, and will manifest [Gk: exhibit or disclose
(by words)] myself to him.
(John 14:22-24) Judas [Heb: celebrated] saith unto him, not [Judas]
Iscariot [the betrayer, traitor] [1], Lord, how is it that thou wilt
manifest [Gk: exhibit or disclose (by words)] thyself unto us, and not
unto the world [Gk: kosmos; “cosmos”] [universe]? Jesus answered and
said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep [Gk: (watch); guard (from
loss or injury): serve] my words [Gk: logos] [2]: and my Father will
love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode [Gk: staying,
residence: mansion] with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my
sayings [Gk: logos]: and the word [Gk: logos] which ye hear is not
mine, but the Father's which sent me.
1. (Luke 6:16) And Judas the brother of James, and
Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor.
2. (Luke 8:11) Now the parable is this: The seed is
the word [Gk: logos] of God.
(John 14:25,26) These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present
with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father
will send in my name, he shall teach you all things [1,2], and bring
all things to your remembrance [Gk: to remind quietly, suggest: put in
mind, remember], whatsoever I have said [i.e., Jesus Christ as the
Word, the Bible (John 1:14)] unto you.
1. (John16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth
[the Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost, Comforter], is come, he will guide you
into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he
shall hear [of the logos (seed)Word], that shall he speak: and he will
shew you things to come.
2. (1 John 2:27) But the anointing [Gk: smearing, the
endowment of the Holy Spirit] which ye have received of him abideth
[“permanently” Amplif.] in you, and [“(so) then” Amplif.] ye need not
that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all
things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye
shall abide [“never to depart (rooted in Him, knit to Him)” Ampif.] in
him.
(John 14:27) Peace [Gk: (to join): quietness, rest, + set at one again]
I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world [Gk:
kosmos; “cosmos”] [universe] giveth, give I unto you. Let not your
heart [fig. the thoughts or feelings (mind)] be troubled [Gk: stirred
up or agitated], neither let it be afraid.
(John 14:28,29) Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come
again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go
unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. And now I have told
you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might
believe.
(John 14:30,31) Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince
of this world [Gk: kosmos; “cosmos”] [universe] [i.e., Lucifer Satan]
cometh, and hath nothing in [(sinless)] me. But that the world [Gk:
kosmos; “cosmos”] [universe] may know that I love the Father; and as
the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise [Gk: (through the
idea of collecting one’s faculties); to waken: (become) awake], let us
go hence [i.e., onward, to Who is waiting for us].