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 heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. 2In My Father’s house are many rooms; if that were not so, I would have told you, because I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I am coming again and will take you to Myself, so that where I am, there you also will be. 4And you know the way where I am going.” 5Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going; how do 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

• And ifἐάνean · ifG1437
• I goπορεύωporeuomai · to travelG4198
• and prepareἑτοιμάζωhetoimazō · to make readyG2090
• a placeτόποςtopos · placeG5117
• I am comingἔρχομαιerchomai · to come/goG2064
• againπάλινpalin · againG3825
• and will takeπαραλαμβάνωparalambanō · to takeG3880
• you to Myselfἐμαυτοῦemautou emautō emauton · myselfG1683
• soἵναhina · in order that/toG2443
• whereὅπουhopou · where(-ever)G3699
• I amεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• you alsoκαίkai · andG2532

Cross-references for John 14:3

• John 14:18“I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.
• John 12:26If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
• John 17:24Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
• Matthew 25:32And all the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, just as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;
• Acts 1:11and they said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.”
• Acts 7:59They went on stoning Stephen as he called on the Lord and said, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
• Romans 8:17and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.
• 2 Corinthians 5:6Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord--
• Philippians 1:23But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better;
• 1 Thessalonians 4:16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
• 2 Thessalonians 1:12so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, in accordance with the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:1Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, regarding the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,
• 2 Timothy 2:12If we endure, we will also reign with Him; If we deny Him, He will also deny us;
• Hebrews 9:28so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.
• 1 John 3:2Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.
• Revelation 3:21The one who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat 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