Later the servant said to him, ‘Master, I did what you told me to do, but we still have places for more people.’
John 14:2 - Easy To Read Version There are many rooms in my Father’s house. I would not tell you this if it were not true. I am going there 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. |
Later the servant said to him, ‘Master, I did what you told me to do, but we still have places for more people.’
Jesus said, “My children, I will be with you only a short time more. You will look for me. And what I told the Jewish leaders, I tell you now: Where I am going you cannot come.
You heard me say to you, ‘I am leaving, but I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, then you would be happy that I am going back to the Father. Why? Because the Father is greater than I am.
I have told you these things now. So when the time comes for these things to happen, you will remember that I warned you.
“Father, I want these people that you have given me to be with me in every place I am. I want them to see my glory. This is the glory you gave me because you loved me before the world was made.
We know that \{our body\}—the tent we live in here on earth—will be destroyed. But when that happens, God will have a home for us to live in. It will not be a home made by men. It will be a home in heaven that will continue forever.
God did not choose us to suffer his anger. God chose us to have salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
That faith and that knowledge come from our hope for life forever. God promised that life to us before time began—and God does not lie.
Abraham was waiting for the city {\cf2\super [145]} that has real foundations. He was waiting for the city that is planned and built by God.
Here on earth we don’t have a city that continues forever. But we are waiting for the city that we will have in the future.
Jesus has already entered there and opened the way for us. Jesus has become the high priest {\cf2\super [52]} forever, the same as Melchizedek. {\cf2\super [53]}
The Holy Spirit {\cf2\super [101]} uses those two separate rooms to teach us this: that the way into the Most Holy Place {\cf2\super [102]} was not open while that first room was still there.
and from Jesus Christ. Jesus is the faithful witness. He was first among those to be raised from death. Jesus is the ruler of the kings of the earth.
And I saw the holy city coming down out of heaven from God. This holy city is the new Jerusalem. {\cf2\super [157]} It was prepared like a bride dressed for her husband.
The person that wins the victory will be a pillar {\cf2\super [28]} in the temple {\cf2\super [29]} of my God. I will do that for the person that wins the victory. That person will never again have to leave God’s temple. I will write the name of my God on that person. And I will write the name of the city of my God on that person. That city is the new Jerusalem. {\cf2\super [30]} That city is coming down out of heaven from my God. I will also write my new name on that person.
“I will let every person that wins the victory sit with me on my throne. It was the same with me. I won the victory and sat down with my Father on his throne.