John 14:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Jesus answered and said unto him,If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. ”

• John 14:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Will keep my words - See John 14:15 . We will come to him - We will come to him with the manifestation of pardon, peace of conscience, and joy in the Holy Spirit. It means that God will mani...

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• John 14:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• John 14:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  answered , &c. See note on Deuteronomy 1:41 and App-122. a man . any one. Greek. tis . App-123. words . word (singular) Greek. logos: i.e. the commandments of verses: John 14:15 ; Joh...

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• John 14:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  23. And my Father will love him. We have already explained that the love of God to us is not placed in the second rank, as if it came after our piety as the cause of that love, but that beli...

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• John 14:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. If a man - Not only my present disciple...

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• John 14:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot,— It is observable, that Judas Iscariot was so finished a hypocrite, that we never find him saying one word of Christ's temporal kingdom, though probablythe hope...

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• John 14:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. Jesus answered and said unto hi...

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• John 14:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• John 14:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  If a man love me, he will keep my words. — Our Lord repeats the condition necessary on the part of man in order that the manifestation of God to him may be possible. This is an answer to the questi...

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• John 14:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• John 14:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• John 14:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• John 14:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• John 14:23 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  COMING AND ABIDING ‘He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father … and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with...

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• John 14:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Jesus answered and said unto him ,.... This answer is returned, and these words are spoken, for the further confirmation and explanation of what was before said: if a man love me, he will keep my...

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• John 14:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. Ver. 23. Jesus answered and said un...

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• John 14:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• John 14:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• John 14:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  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...

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• John 14:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  If any man love Christ, he will keep Christ's words; that is, he will study and endeavour to keep the commandments of Christ; for if nothing evidenced a true love to Christ but a perfect obedience to...

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• John 14:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• John 14:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• John 14:23 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  John 14:22-26 Observe: I. The harmony we may trace between the Spirit's working and the working of our own hearts and minds, according to the ordinary laws of thought and feeling which regulate t...

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• John 14:23 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  I suppose that many of you know this chapter by heart. I notice that, in all old Christians' Bibles, this leaf is well worn, sometimes worn out. We have here our Lord's homely talk to his disciples;...

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• John 14:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• John 14:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Judas saith unto Him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that Thou wilt manifest Thyself unto us and not unto the world? How may the Lord disclose or reveal Himself to His disciples, and not to others...

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• John 14:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• John 14:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The effects of the mystical union:

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• John 14:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 2:24 ; 1 John 4:15 ; 1 John 4:16 ; 1 John 4:4 ; Genesis 1:26 ; Genesis 11:7 ; Isaiah 57:15 ; John 10:30 ; John 14:15 ; John 14:17 ; John 14:21 ; John 5:17-19 ; John 6:56 ; Psalms...

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• John 14:23 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  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...

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• John 14:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Jesus answered — Because ye love and obey me, and they do not, therefore I will reveal myself to you, and not to them. My Father will love him — The more any man loves and obeys, the more God will...

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