John 14:28

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

Heard

John 14:3

John 16:16

If

1 Peter 1:8

I go

John 14:12

John 16:16

John 20:17

Father

General references

John 16:6

Bible References

Heard

If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you to Myself, so that where I am you may be also.

“A little while and you will no longer see Me; again a little while and you will see Me.”

If

Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send Him to you.

God ascends among shouts of joy,
the Lord, among the sound of trumpets.

You ascended to the heights, taking away captives;
You received gifts from people,
even from the rebellious,
so that the Lord God might live there.

And while He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven.

You love Him, though you have not seen Him. And though not seeing Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with inexpressible and glorious joy,

I go

“I assure you: The one who believes in Me will also do the works that I do. And he will do even greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.

“A little while and you will no longer see Me; again a little while and you will see Me.”

“Don’t cling to Me,” Jesus told her, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to My brothers and tell them that I am ascending to My Father and your Father—to My God and your God.”

Father

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

The Father and I are one.”

“I assure you: A slave is not greater than his master,

and a messenger is not greater than the one who sent him.

Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”

“This is My Servant; I strengthen Him,
this is My Chosen One; I delight in Him.
I have put My Spirit on Him;
He will bring justice to the nations.

And now, says the Lord,
who formed me from the womb to be His Servant,
to bring Jacob back to Him
so that Israel might be gathered to Him;
for I am honored in the sight of the Lord,
and my God is my strength—

He will see it out of His anguish,
and He will be satisfied with His knowledge.
My righteous Servant will justify many,
and He will carry their iniquities.

Here is My Servant whom I have chosen,
My beloved in whom My soul delights;
I will put My Spirit on Him,
and He will proclaim justice to the nations.

But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman,

and God is the head of Christ.

Then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when He abolishes all rule and all authority and power.

who, existing in the form of God,
did not consider equality with God
as something to be used for His own advantage.

In these last days, He has spoken to us by His Son. God has appointed Him heir of all things and made the universe

through Him.

But we do see Jesus—made lower than the angels for a short time so that by God’s grace He might taste death for everyone—crowned with glory and honor because of His suffering in death.

Therefore, holy brothers and companions in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession;

saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

General references

Yet, because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.