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Selected Verse: John 14:3 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Joh 14:3 |
King James |
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| I will come again and receive you unto myself--strictly, at His Personal appearing; but in a secondary and comforting sense, to each individually. Mark again the claim made:--to come again to receive His people to Himself, that where He is there they may be also. He thinks it ought to be enough to be assured that they shall be where He is and in His keeping. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
receive you unto myself
This promise of a second advent of Christ is to be distinguished from His return in glory to the earth; it is the first intimation in Scripture of "the day of Christ".
(See Scofield) - (Co1 1:8).
Here He comes for His saints (Th1 4:14-17); there (Mat 24:29); (Mat 24:30), He come to judge the nations, etc. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
If I go (ἐὰν πορευθῶ)
Πορεύομαι, go, of going with a definite object. See on Joh 8:21.
I will come again (πάλιν ἔρχομαι)
The present tense; I come, so Rev. Not to be limited to the Lord's second and glorious coming at the last day, nor to any special coming, such as Pentecost, though these are all included in the expression; rather to be taken of His continual coming and presence by the Holy Spirit. "Christ is, in fact, from the moment of His resurrection, ever coming into the world and to the Church, and to men as the risen Lord" (Westcott).
And receive (παραλήψομαι)
Here the future tense, will receive. Rev., therefore, much better: I come again and will receive you. The change of tense is intentional, the future pointing to the future personal reception of the believer through death. Christ is with the disciple alway, continually "coming" to him, unto the end of the world. Then He will receive him into that immediate fellowship, where he "shall see Him as He is." The verb παραλαμβάνω is used in the New Testament of taking along with (Mat 4:5, note; Mat 17:1, note; Act 16:33, note): of taking to (Mat 1:20; Joh 14:3): of taking from, receiving by transmission; so mostly in Paul (Gal 1:12; Col 2:6; Col 4:17; Th1 2:13, etc. See also Mat 24:40, Mat 24:41). It is scarcely fanciful to see the first two meanings blended in the use of the verb in this passage. Jesus, by the Spirit, takes His own along with Him through life, and then takes them to His side at death. He himself conducts them to Himself.
I am
See on Joh 7:34. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| And if I go - And when I shall have gone and prepared a place for you - opened the kingdom of an eternal glory for your reception, and for the reception of all that shall die in the faith, I will come again, after my resurrection, and give you the fullest assurances of this state of blessedness; and confirm you in the faith, by my grace and the effusion of my Spirit. Dr. Lightfoot thinks, and with great probability too, that there is an allusion here to Num 10:33 : And the ark of the Lord went before them to search out a resting place for them. |
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
34 Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
17 And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.
6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
1 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
21 Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
33 And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.