John 14:2
1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
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.
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.
4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- 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.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- In my Father's house there are many abodes; were it not so, I had told you: for I go to prepare you a place;
- BLB
- In My Father’s house are many dwelling places. And if not so, would I have told you⁺ that I am going to prepare a place for you⁺?
- ÅB
- I min Fars hus er det mange rom; var det ikke så, da hadde jeg sagt dere det; for jeg går bort for å berede dere sted;
- OTB
- I min Fars hus er det mange rom. Hvis det ikke var slik, ville jeg da ha sagt at jeg går for å gjøre i stand et sted for dere?
- B1930
- I min Faders hus er det mange rum; var det ikke så, da hadde jeg sagt eder det; for jeg går bort for å berede eder sted;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Read in contextJohn 13:36
Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.
Read in contextHebrews 13:14
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
Read in contextRevelation 21:2
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Read in contextHebrews 11:10
For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Read in contextRevelation 3:12
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Read in contextHebrews 11:14–16
For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
Read in contextJohn 17:24
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
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