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.
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Gill's Exposition
In my Father's house are many mansions,.... This he says to draw off their minds from an earthly kingdom to an heavenly one; to point out the place to them whither he was going, and to support them…
In my Father’s house - Most interpreters understand this of heaven, as the special dwelling-place or palace of God; but it may include the universe, as the abode of the omnipresent God. Are many…
Adam Clarke
In my Father's house, etc. - The kingdom of glory.
Many mansions - Though I have said before that whither I am going ye cannot come now, yet do not think that we shall be for ever separated. I am…
In these verses we have,
I. A general caution which Christ gives to his disciples against trouble of heart (Joh 14:1): Let not your heart be troubled. They now began to be troubled, were entering into…
Cambridge Bible
In my Father's house Heaven. Comp. -The Lord's throne is in heaven," Psa 11:4; -Our Father, Which art in heaven" (Mat 6:9), &c.
are many mansions Nothing is said about mansions differing in dignity…
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