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
Father
General references
Bible References
Heard
John 14:3
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
John 16:16
"A little while, and you will see me no more; again a little while, and you will see me."
If
John 16:7
Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
Luke 24:51
While he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven.
1 Peter 1:8
Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
I go
John 14:12
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I go to the Father.
John 16:16
"A little while, and you will see me no more; again a little while, and you will see me."
John 20:17
Jesus said to her, "Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, "I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
Father
John 5:18
Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
John 10:30
I and the Father are one."
John 13:16
Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.
John 20:21
Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I also send you."
Matthew 12:18
"Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased! I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:24
Then comes the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all rule and all authority and power.
Philippians 2:6
who, though he was in the form of God, did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
Hebrews 1:2
but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the world.
Hebrews 2:9
But we see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
Hebrews 3:1
Therefore, holy brethren, who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.
Revelation 1:11
saying, "Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea."
General references
John 16:6
But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.