‘ “Master,” the servant said, “what you ordered has been done, and there’s still room.”
John 14:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In My Father's house there are many dwelling places (homes). If it were not so, I would have told you; for I am going away to prepare a place for you. American Standard Version (1901) In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. Common English Bible My Father’s house has room to spare. If that weren’t the case, would I have told you that I’m going to prepare a place for you? Catholic Public Domain Version In my Father's house, there are many dwelling places. If there were not, I would have told you. For I go to prepare a place for you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In my Father's house there are many mansions. If not, I would have told you: because I go to prepare a place for you. |
‘ “Master,” the servant said, “what you ordered has been done, and there’s still room.”
Little children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so now I tell you, “Where I am going, you cannot come.”
‘Lord,’ Simon Peter said to him, ‘where are you going? ’ Jesus answered, ‘Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later.’
You have heard me tell you, “I am going away and I am coming to you.” If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.
But I have told you these things so that when their time comes you will remember that I told them to you. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
‘Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they will see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the world’s foundation.
For we know that if our earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in the heavens, not made with hands.
For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
in the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
For we do not have an enduring city here; instead, we seek the one to come.
Jesus has entered there on our behalf as a forerunner, because he has become a high priest for ever according to the order of Melchizedek.
The Holy Spirit was making it clear that the way into the most holy place had not yet been disclosed while the first tabernacle was still standing.
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has set us free from our sins by his blood,
I also saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
‘The one who conquers I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never go out again. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God #– #the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God #– #and my new name.
‘To the one who conquers I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.