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

And, since I go and prepare a place for you, I shall return and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am;

In a little while you will no longer see me; and then in a little while you will see me indeed."

If

Yet I am only telling you the truth; it is for your good that I should go away. For otherwise the Helper will never come to you, but, if I leave you, I will send him to you.

As he was in the act of blessing them, he left them [and was carried up into Heaven.]

Though you have never seen him, yet you love him; though you do not even now see him, yet you believe in him, and exalt with a triumphant happiness too great for words,

I go

In truth I tell you, he who believes in me will himself do the work that I am doing; and he will do greater work still, because I am going to the Father.

In a little while you will no longer see me; and then in a little while you will see me indeed."

"Do not hold me," Jesus said; "for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my Brothers, and tell them that I am ascending to him who is my Father and their Father, my God and their God."

Father

This made the Jews all the more eager to kill him, because not only was he doing away with the Sabbath, but he actually called God his own Father--putting himself on an equality with God.

The Father and I are one."

In truth I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor yet a messenger than the man who sends him.

Again Jesus said to them: "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me as his Messenger, so I am sending you."

'Behold! the Servant of my Choice, My Beloved, in whom my heart delights! I will breathe my spirit upon him, And he shall announce a time of judgment to the Gentiles.

But I am anxious that you should understand that the Christ is the Head of every man, that man is the Head of woman, and that God is the Head of the Christ.

Then will come the end-when he surrenders the Kingdom to his God and Father, having overthrown all other rule and all other authority and power.

Though the divine nature was his from the beginning, yet he did not look upon equality with God as above all things to be clung to,

has in these latter days spoken to us by the Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe.

What our eyes do see is Jesus, who was made for a while lower than angels, now, because of his sufferings and death, crowned with glory and honour; so that his tasting the bitterness of death should, in God's loving-kindness, be on behalf of all mankind.

Therefore, Christian Brothers, you who, all alike, have received the Call from Heaven, fix your attention on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our Religion.

It said-- 'Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven Churches, to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamus, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicaea.'

General references

Although your hearts are full of sorrow at all that I have been saying to you.