John 14:3

John 14:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.

Context of John 14:3

1“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well. 2In 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? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am. 4You know the way to the place where I am going.” 5“Lord,” said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?”

John 14:3 word by word

καὶ ἐὰν πορευθῶ καὶ ἑτοιμάσω τόπον ὑμῖν, πάλιν ἔρχομαι καὶ παραλήμψομαι ὑμᾶς πρὸς ἐμαυτόν, ἵνα ὅπου εἰμὶ ἐγὼ καὶ ὑμεῖς ἦτε.Read the interlinear

• Andκαίkai · andG2532
• ifἐάνean · ifG1437
• I goπορεύωporeuomai · to travelG4198
• prepareἑτοιμάζωhetoimazō · to make readyG2090
• a placeτόποςtopos · placeG5117
• for youσύsu · youG4771
• I will comeἔρχομαιerchomai · to come/goG2064
• backπάλινpalin · againG3825
• welcomeπαραλαμβάνωparalambanō · to takeG3880
• intoπρόςpros · to/withG4314
• My presenceἐμαυτοῦemautou emautō emauton · myselfG1683
• so thatἵναhina · in order that/toG2443
• may beεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• whereὅπουhopou · where(-ever)G3699
• Iἐγώegō · I/weG1473

Cross-references for John 14:3

• John 14:18I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
• John 12:26If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
• John 17:24Father, I want those You have given Me to be with Me where I am, that they may see the glory You gave Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
• Matthew 25:32All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
• Acts 1:11“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into heaven.”
• Acts 7:59While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
• Romans 8:17And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.
• 2 Corinthians 5:6Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.
• Philippians 1:23I am torn between the two. I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better indeed.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.
• 2 Thessalonians 1:12so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:1Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to Him, we ask you, brothers,
• 2 Timothy 2:12if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us;
• Hebrews 9:28so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.
• 1 John 3:2Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.
• Revelation 3:21To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

Commentaries on John 14:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3And 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 again, after my resurrection, and give you the fullest assurances of this state of blessedness; and confirm you in the faith, by my grace and the effusion of my Spirit. Dr. Lightfoot thinks, and with great probability too, that there is an allusion here to…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3Some scholars think that Jesus meant he would come and get his followers after the resurrection (14:18). Others think these words refer to the second coming of Jesus. For the disciples, the return of Jesus from the grave was more important (chapter 16).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. I will come again and receive you unto myself--strictly, at His Personal appearing; but in a secondary and comforting sense, to each individually. Mark again the claim made:--to come again to receive His people to Himself, that where He is there they may be also. He thinks it ought to be enough to be assured that they shall be where He is and in His keeping.Read the comment

Topics related to John 14:3

• Heaven
• Jesus Continued
• Jesus, the Christ
• Righteous

In the dictionaries

• Believe
• Comforter
• Comfortless
• Hence
• Present
• Suffice
• Truth
• Atonement
• Christ, the Exaltation of
• Communion; (fellowship)

Commentaries on John 14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings