John 14

[1] Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in G-d, believe also in me.
[2] 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.
[If not, I would have told you--that is, I would tell you so at once; I would not deceive you. I go to prepare a place for you--to obtain for you a right to be there, and to possess your "place."]
[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.
[I will come again and receive you unto myself--strictly, at His Personal appearing; but in a secondary and comforting sense, to you individually.]
[4] And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
[5] Thomas saith unto him, L-rd, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
[6] Y'Shua saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
[7] If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
[8] Philip saith unto him, L-rd, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
[9] Y'Shua saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
[10] Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
[11] Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
[12] Verily, verily, I say unto you, one that believeth on me, the works that I do shall you do also; and greater works than these shall you do; because I go unto my Father.
["Greater" works--not in degree but in kind]
[13] And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
[14] If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
[15] If ye love me, keep my commandments.
[16] And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
[17] Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
[18] I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
[I will not leave you comfortless--in a bereaved and desolate condition;]
[19] Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
[20] At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
[21] You that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, you it is that loveth me: and you that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love you, and will manifest myself to you.
[My Father and I will love you--Mark the sharp line of distinction here, not only between the Divine Persons but the acting’s of love in Each respectively, towards true disciples.]
[22] Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, L-rd, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
[23] Y'Shua answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love you, and we will come unto you, and make our abode with you.
[24] He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
[25] These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
[26] But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
[The whole of what is here said of THE SPIRIT is decisive of His divine personality. "He who can regard all the personal expressions, applied to the Spirit in these three chapters ('teaching,' 'reminding,' 'testifying,' 'coming,' 'convincing,' 'guiding,' 'speaking,' 'hearing,' 'prophesying,' 'taking') deserves to be recognized even as an interpreter of intelligible words, an expositor of Holy Scripture"]
[27] Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
[Not as the world giveth--in contrast with the world, He gives sincerely, substantially, eternally.]
[28] 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.
[29] And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
[30] Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
[Hereafter I will not talk much with you--"I have a little more to say, but My work hastens apace, and the approach of the adversary will cut it short." For the prince of this cometh--with hostile intent, for a last grand attack, having failed in His first formidable assault (Luke 4:1-13) from which he "departed [only] for a season" (John 14:13). And hath nothing in me--nothing of His own--nothing to fasten on.
[31] But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
[Arise, go hence- a spontaneous and irrepressible expression of the deep eagerness of His spirit to enter into the conflict,]