2In 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.
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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.
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.
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)In these verses we have, I. A general caution which Christ gives to his disciples against trouble of heart (John 14:1): Let not your heart be troubled . They now began to be troubled, were entering into this temptation. Now here see, 1. How Christ took notice of it. Perhaps it was apparent in their looks; it was said (John 13:22), They looked one upon another with anxiety and concern, and Christ l…
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