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

And since I'm going away to prepare a place for you, I'll come back again and welcome you into my presence, so that you may be where I am.

In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again."

If

However, I'm telling you the truth. It's for your advantage that I'm going away, because if I don't go away, the Helper won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

God has ascended on high with a shout, the LORD has ascended with the blast of a trumpet.

You ascended to the heights, you took captives. You received gifts among mankind, even the rebellious, so the LORD God may live there.

While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up to heaven.

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 indescribable and glorious joy,

I go

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who believes in me will also do what I'm doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I'm going to the Father.

In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again."

Jesus told her, "Don't hold on to me, because I haven't yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, "I'm ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

Father

So the Jewish leaders were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

I and the Father are one."

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, a servant isn't greater than his master, and a messenger isn't greater than the one who sent him.

Jesus told them again, "Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, so I am sending you."

"Here is my servant, whom I support, my chosen one, in whom I delight. I've placed my Spirit upon him; and he'll deliver his justice throughout the world.

"And now, says the LORD, who formed you from the womb as his servant to bring Jacob back to him so that Israel might be gathered to him and I am honored in the LORD's sight and my God has been my help

Out of the suffering of his soul he will see light and find satisfaction. And through his knowledge his servant, the righteous one, will make many righteous, and he will bear their iniquities.

"Here is my Servant whom I have chosen, whom I love, and with whom I am pleased! I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to unbelievers.

Now I want you to realize that the Messiah is the head of every man, and man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of the Messiah.

Then the end will come, when after he has done away with every ruler and every authority and power, the Messiah hands over the kingdom to God the Father.

In God's own form existed he, and shared with God equality, deemed nothing needed grasping.

has in these last days spoken to us by a Son whom he appointed to be the heir of everything and through whom he also made the universe.

Now when God put everything under him, he left nothing outside his control. However, at the present time we do not yet see everything put under him. But we do see someone who was made a little lower than the angels. He is Jesus, who is crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might experience death for everyone.

Therefore, holy brothers, partners in a heavenly calling, keep your focus on 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

But because I have told you this, sorrow has filled your hearts.