“ I will not leave you comfortless:a I will come to you. ”
Comfortless - Greek, “orphans.” Jesus here addresses them as children, John 13:33 . He says that he would show them the kindness of a parent, and, though he was going away, he would provide for...
John 14:1-4 takes up the thoughts of the previous paragraph, not of the last verse. The thoughts of separation and treachery had led to perplexity, if not despair. Jesus bids them trust God and Him...
comfortless . orphans. Greek. or phanos. Occurs only here and James 1:27 . will come . am coming. As in John 14:3 . to. Greek. pros. App-104.
18. I will not have you orphans. This passage shows what men are, and what they can do, when they have been deprived of the protection of the Spirit. They are orphans, exposed to every kin...
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. I will not leave you comfortless - Literally, orphans. The original word ορφανος, is by some derived from ορφνος, obscure, dark, because, says Mi...
I will not leave you comfortless:— 'Ορφανους, orphans, He had called them his dear children, — τεκνια,— John 13:33 of the last chapter. "Encourage yourselves therefore with the pleasing expect...
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. I will not leave you comfortless, х orfanous ( G3737 )] - 'orphans,' as in the margin; in a bereaved and desolate condition. I wil...
The Comforter 1-31. The mansions in heaven. The mission of the Comforter. This great discourse, which is not easily susceptible of formal subdivision, deals with five main subjects: (1) the heaven...
I will not leave you comfortless. — Better with the margin, I will not leave you orphans, which exactly represents the Greek word. “Comfortless” is unfortunate, as it suggests a connection with “...
VIII. JESUS ANNOUNCES HIS DEPARTURE. "When therefore he was gone out, Jesus saith, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him; and God shall glorify Him in Himself, and strai...
the Spirit of Truth John 14:12-24 There is no adequate translation for the word Paraclete. It may be rendered “interpreter,” “comforter,” “advocate,” but no one word suffices. The Greek means...
There is no real break between the end of chapter 13 and beginning of chapter 14. Therefore continuing, while now including all the disciples, He charged them not to let their heart be troubled. He t...
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; (17) Even the spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neithe...
I will not leave you comfortless ,.... Gr. "orphans", or "fatherless". Christ stands in the relation of a Father to his people, and they are his children, his spiritual seed and offspring; and so th...
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Ver. 18. I will not leave you comfortless ] Orphans, or darkling, ορφανους ab ορφνη, tenebrae. I your Lord am taken indeed from your head...
I will not leave you comfortless Greek, ορφανους, orphans: a word elegantly applied to those who have lost any dear friend; I will come to you By my spiritual presence. The Greek, ερχομαι, is lit...
MINISTRY OF ENCOURAGEMENT CENTERED IN CHRIST PERSONALLY (vs.1-6) Had the Lord spoken the last words of chapter 13 with the object of discouraging Peter? By no means. For His next words are "Let n...
Christ's Consolatory Discourse. 18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while, and the world see...
Comfortless; the word in the Greek is, orphans, persons without father and mother, who for the most part are the most comfortless persons; therefore it is translated comfortless: Christ hath a ca...
2). The Demands that He Makes and the Provision That He Is Making For Their Fulfilment ( John 14:12-26 ). Jesus now stresses what He is expecting from His disciples and assures them that full prov...
EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 14:15 . Keep My commandment. —“Ask in My name. Keep My,” etc. These go together. We can only truly pray in His name when we keep, etc. John 14:16 . ἐγὼ ἐρ...
John 14:16-21 I. The Holy Spirit is promised as another Comforter. This surely indicates, not a new office to be discharged, but an old one, or one already subsisting, to be discharged by a new pe...
This is a chapter which I suppose most of us know by heart, full of comfort, a very river of delight. Remember that our Lord spoke this to his own beloved ones to the inner circle. It was not addres...
John 14:1 . Let not your heart be troubled. Our Saviour having denounced Judas as a traitor, and plainly spoken of his own departure out of the world, left no jewish hope of a temporal kingdom; so...
I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you Not left comfortless The word “comfortless” means “bereft. ” We have adopted the Greek word, and have gradually limited it to the severest...
EXPOSITION John 14:1 It is not necessary to follow Codex D and some of the versions, and here introduce into the text καὶ εἶπεν τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ. It is enough that the awful war...
I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you.
2 Corinthians 1:2-6 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:16 ; Hebrews 2:18 ; Hosea 14:3 ; Hosea 6:3 ; Isaiah 43:1 ; Isaiah 51:12 ; Isaiah 66:11-13 ; John 14:16 ; John 14:27 ; John 14:28 ; John 14:3 ; Joh...
The Comfort Chapter John 14:1-26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS How wonderful it is that our Lord Jesus Christ could give forth such words of comfort in the hour when He, Himself, was hastening on toward...
I will not leave you orphans — A word that is elegantly applied to those who have lost any dear friend. I come to you — What was certainly and speedily to be, our Lord speaks of as if it were alrea...