John 14:28

Conservative English Version

You have already heard me say that I am going and that I will also come back to you. If you really love me, you should be glad that I am going back to the Father, because he is greater than I am.

Cross References

Psalm 68:18

When you climbed the high mountain, you took prisoners with you and were given gifts. Your enemies didn't want you to live there, but they gave you gifts.

Psalm 68:9

When your land was thirsty, you sent showers to refresh it.

Isaiah 42:1

Here is my servant! I have made him strong. He is my chosen one; I am pleased with him. I have given him my Spirit, and he will bring justice to the nations.

Isaiah 53:11

By suffering, the servant will learn the true meaning of obeying the LORD. Although he is innocent, he will take the punishment for the sins of others, so that many of them will no longer be guilty.

Matthew 12:18

"Here is my chosen servant! I love him, and he pleases me. I will give him my Spirit, and he will bring justice to the nations.

John 10:38

But if I do what my Father does, you should believe because of that, even if you don't have faith in me. Then you will know for certain that the Father is one with me, and I am one with the Father.

John 13:16

I tell you for certain that servants are not greater than their master, and messengers are not greater than the one who sent them.

John 14:12

I tell you for certain that if you have faith in me, you will do the same things that I am doing. You will do even greater things, now that I am going back to the Father.

John 14:18

I won't leave you like orphans. I will come back to you.

John 16:7

But I tell you that I am going to do what is best for you. That is why I am going away. The Holy Spirit cannot come to help you until I leave. But after I am gone, I will send the Spirit to you.

John 20:17

Jesus told her, "Don't hold on to me! I have not yet gone to the Father. But tell my disciples that I am going to the one who is my Father and my God, as well as your Father and your God."

John 20:21

After Jesus had greeted them again, he said, "I am sending you, just as the Father has sent me."

John 5:18

Now the leaders wanted to kill Jesus for two reasons. First, he had broken the law of the Sabbath. But even worse, he had said that God was his Father, which made him equal with God.

John 7:33

But Jesus told them, "I will be with you a little while longer, and then I will return to the one who sent me.

1 Corinthians 11:3

Now I want you to know that Christ is the head over all men, and a man is the head over a woman. But God is the head over Christ.

1 Peter 1:8

You have never seen Jesus, and you don't see him now. But still you love him and have faith in him, and no words can tell how glad and happy

Revelation 1:11

The voice said, "Write in a book what you see. Then send it to the seven churches in Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea."