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John 14:3

John 14:3
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And if I go and prepare a place for you,.... Seeing I am going to prepare, and will prepare a place for you, of the truth of which you may be fully assured:

I will come again; either by death or in…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

John 14:2-3

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…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

And if I go - And when I shall have gone and prepared a place for you - opened the kingdom of an eternal glory for your reception, and for the reception of all that shall die in the faith, I will come…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

John 14:1-3

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

And if I go The -if" does not here imply doubt any more than -when" would have done: but we have -if" and not -when" because it is the resultof the departure and not the date of it that is emphasized…