NEW TESTAMENT

John 14:2

The Holy Bible · English
All chapters

Read all chapter notes ↗

Bilingual reading
Text

Open an explanation beneath verses with notes. Your notes and highlights stay on this device.

2

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

ExplanationCommentary
EXPLANATION

Verse 2. In my Father’s house. He does not say of your Father: for though God be the Father of all by creation, and of the just, by the grace of adoption; yet Christ in several places, calls him his Father, in a quite different sense, that is, as he was his eternal Father, as the ancient interpreters observe. Witham.—These many mansions signify different degrees of glory in heaven. Saint Jerome l. ii. adv. Jovin.

Read all chapter notes
Read the whole chapter