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

John 16:7

Luke 24:51

1 Peter 1:8

I go

John 14:12

John 16:16

John 20:17

Father

General references

John 16:6

Bible References

Heard

I will return and will take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be also.

"In a little while you shall behold me no more; and again in a little while you shall see me, because I am going to the Father."

If

"Yet?? am telling you the truth??y going is for your good. For unless I go away the Comforter will not come to you; but if I depart I will send him unto you.

And it happened that while he was blessing them, that he parted from them and was carried into heaven.

Him you love, though you have never seen him; in him you ever believe, though even now you see him not, and you are rejoicing with joy unspeakable and full of glory,

I go

"I tell you solemnly that he who trusts in me shall himself do the works that I am doing; and still greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

"In a little while you shall behold me no more; and again in a little while you shall see me, because I am going to the Father."

"Do not cling to me," said Jesus, "for I am not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, "'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

Father

For this reason the Jews continued to seek the more eagerly to put him to death, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was actually speaking of God as his own Father, thus making himself of God's equal.

"I and my Father are one."

In solemn truth I tell you that a slave is not greater than his master, neither is a messenger greater than the one who sends him.

Then Jesus said to them again. "Peace to you. As my Father has sent me forth, I also now am sending you."

Behold my servant whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom my soul delights; I will breathe my spirit upon him, and he shall announce justice to the Gentiles.

But I wish you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and of a wife her husband is head; and that God is head of Christ.

And then the end, when he shall hand over his kingdom to God his Father, after he has abolished all rule and authority and power.

who, though from the beginning he had the nature of God, did not reckon equality with God something to be forcibly retained,

has at the end of these days spoken to us in a Son whom he appointed heir of all things; through whom also he made the universe.

What we do see is Jesus, who was made for a time a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor, because of the suffering of death, in order that through God's grace he might taste death for every man.

Therefore, holy brothers, comrades of a heavenly calling, fix your thoughts then upon Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.

saying, "Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches; to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and Sardis and Philadelphia and Laodicea."

General references

"but sorrow has filled your hearts because I have told you these things.