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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am.

Context of John 14:3

1“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God ; believe also in me. 2My Father’s house has many rooms; if that 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 take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4You know the way to the place where I am going.” 5Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t 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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Andκαίkai · andG2532
• ifἐάνean · ifG1437
• I goπορεύωporeuomai · to travelG4198
• prepareἑτοιμάζωhetoimazō · to make readyG2090
• a placeτόποςtopos · placeG5117
• for youσύsu · youG4771
• I will comeἔρχομαιerchomai · to come/goG2064
• againπάλινpalin · againG3825
• receiveπαραλαμβάνωparalambanō · to takeG3880
• untoπρόςpros · to/withG4314
• myselfἐμαυτοῦemautou emautō emauton · myselfG1683
• thatἵναhina · in order that/toG2443
• whereὅπουhopou · where(-ever)G3699
• Iἐγώegō · I/weG1473
• amεἰμίeimi · to beG1510

Cross-references for John 14:3

• John 14:18I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
• John 12:26Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
• John 17:24“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation 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 prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
• Romans 8:17Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
• 2 Corinthians 5:6Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as 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 better by far;
• 1 Thessalonians 4:16For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
• 2 Thessalonians 1:12We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:1Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters,
• 2 Timothy 2:12if we endure, we will also reign with him. If we disown him, he will also disown us;
• Hebrews 9:28so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
• 1 John 3:2Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
• Revelation 3:21To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious 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
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• Present
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• Truth
• Atonement
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• 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