John 14:2 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.

Words Then and Now

What these words mean in the King James Bible, and where you’ll still hear them today.

Thou and Ye

  • you more than one

In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?

Matthew Henry

  • Christ comforts his disciplesHere are three words, upon any of which stress may be laid. Upon the word troubled. Be not cast down and disquieted. The word heart. Let your heart be kept...

Thompson Chains

Harmony of the Gospels

Passion Week

  • The Last SupperTuesday, the 13th · Evening, as Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John tell it

Parallel Passages

  • Hebrews 6:20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).

Cross References

  • John 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.
  • Hebrews 13:14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
  • 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.
  • Revelation 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.
  • Revelation 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.

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Topics

  • Church My father’s house
  • God Fatherhood of
  • Heaven The father’s house
  • House Figurative
  • Jesus, the Christ Teaches his disciples, and comforts them with promises, and promises the gift of the Holy Spirit (in Jerusalem)

Timeline

Greek and Strong’s

  • In Ἐν En ἐν Preposition
  • my μου mou Pronoun · first person, genitive singular μοῦ moû
  • Father's τοῦ tou Article · genitive masculine singular Πατρός Patros πατήρ Noun · genitive masculine singular
  • house τῇ tē Article · dative feminine singular οἰκίᾳ oikia οἰκία Noun · dative feminine singular
  • are εἰσιν eisin Verb · present active indicative, third person plural εἰσί eisí
  • many πολλαί pollai πολύς Adjective · nominative feminine plural
  • mansions μοναὶ monai μονή Noun · nominative feminine plural
  • if it were not εἰ ei Conjunction δὲ de Conjunction μή mē Adverb εἰ δὲ μή(γε) ei dè mḗ(ge)
  • I would have told εἶπον eipon Verb · aorist active indicative, first person singular ἂν an ἄν Particle ἔπω épō
  • you ὑμῖν hymin Pronoun · second person, dative plural ὑμῖν hymîn
  • I go Πορεύομαι Poreuomai πορεύομαι Verb · present middle indicative, first person singular
  • to prepare ἑτοιμάσαι hetoimasai ἑτοιμάζω Verb · aorist active infinitive
  • a place τόπον topon τόπος Noun · accusative masculine singular
  • for you ὑμῖν hymin Pronoun · second person, dative plural ὑμῖν hymîn

Greek: KJTR, Alan Bunning, CNTR · CC BY 4.0

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