Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
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Gill's Exposition
Ye have heard how I said unto you,.... Christ had not only told his disciples that he should depart from them in a little time, but also that he should return again to them, and comfort them with his…
Barnes' Notes
Ye have heard ... - Joh 14:2-3. If ye loved me - The expression is not to be construed as if they had then no love to him, for they evidently had; but they had also low views of him as the Messiah;…
Adam Clarke
I go away - To the Father by my death:
And come again unto you - By my resurrection.
Ye would rejoice - Because, as the Messiah, I am going to receive a kingdom, and power, and glory, for ever.…
Christ here gives his disciples another reason why their hearts should not be troubled for his going away; and that is, because his heart was not. And here he tells them what it was that enabled him…
Cambridge Bible
Ye have heard, &c. Literally, Ye heard that I said to you, I am going away and I am coming unto you:comp. Joh 14:1-2; Joh 14:14.
because I said, I go, &c. Omit -I said," which is wanting in all the…
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