John 14:2

Jesus' Farewell Discourse

¹ Let not your hearts be disquieted; you believe ??believe in God and also in me. ² In my Father's house there are many abodes; were it not so, would I have told you that I was going to prepare a place for you? ³ And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.

I Go Away

My Father

Prepare a Place

John

John 13:33

My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer; then you will look for me, and, as I told the Jews I tell you now, where I go you cannot come.

John 13:36

"Lord," said Simon Peter, "where are you going?" Jesus replied, "I am going where you cannot follow me at present; later on you will follow me."

2 Corinthians 5:1

I know that if this earthly tent of mine is taken down, I get a home from God, made by no human hands, eternal in the heavens.

John 12:25-26

He who loves his life loses it, and he who cares not for his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

John 16:4

I have told you all this, so that when the time for it arrives, you may remember what I said to you. I did not tell you about this at the beginning, because I was with you then;

John 17:24

Father, it is my will that these, thy gift to me, may be beside me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

Acts 9:16

I will show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my Name."

1 Thessalonians 3:3-4

to prevent anyone being disturbed by these troubles. (Troubles are our lot, you know that well;

2 Thessalonians 1:4-10

So much so, that throughout the churches of God we are proud of you, proud of the stedfastness and faith you display through all the persecutions and the troubles in which you are involved.

Titus 1:2

serving in hope of the life eternal which God, who never lies, promised ages ago ??3 he gave effect to his word in due time by a proclamation with which I have been entrusted by command of God our Saviour: ??4 to Titus my lawful son in a faith we hold in common; grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

Hebrews 6:20

There Jesus entered for us in advance, when he became high priest for ever with the rank of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 9:8

By this the holy Spirit means that the way into the Holiest Presence was not disclosed so long as the first tent

Hebrews 9:23-26

Now, while the copies of the heavenly things had to be cleansed with sacrifices like these, the heavenly things themselves required nobler sacrifices.

Hebrews 11:10

he was waiting for the City with its fixed foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Hebrews 11:14-16

Now people who speak in this way plainly show they are in search of a fatherland.

Hebrews 13:14

(for we have no lasting city here below, we seek the City to come).

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood ??6 he has made us a realm of priests for his God and Father, ??to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever: Amen.

Revelation 3:12

'As for the conqueror, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God (nevermore shall he leave it), and I will inscribe on him the name of my God, the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem which descends out of heaven from my God), and my own new name.'

Revelation 3:21

'The conqueror I will allow to sit beside me on my throne, as I myself have conquered and sat down beside my Father on his throne.'

Revelation 21:2

And I saw the holy City, the new Jerusalem, descending from God out of heaven, all ready like a bride arrayed for her husband.

Revelation 21:10-27

So he carried me off, rapt in the Spirit, to a huge, high mountain, where he showed me the City, the holy Jerusalem, descending from God out of heaven,

Luke 14:26-33

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine;