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 if I go and make ready a place for you, I will return and take you to be with me, that where I am you also may be.

"A little while and you see me no more, and again a little while and you shall see me."

If

"Yet it is the truth that I am telling you--it is to your advantage that I go away. For unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

And while He was blessing them, He parted from them and was carried up into Heaven.

Him you love, though your eyes have never looked on Him. In Him, though at present you cannot see Him, you nevertheless trust, and triumph with a joy which is unspeakable and is crowned with glory,

I go

In most solemn truth I tell you that he who trusts in me--the things which I do he shall do also; and greater things than these he shall do, because I am going to the Father.

"A little while and you see me no more, and again a little while and you shall see me."

"Do not cling to me," said Jesus, "for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But take this message to my brethren: 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

Father

On this account then the Jews were all the more eager to put Him to death--because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also spoke of God as being in a special sense His Father, thus putting Himself on a level with God.

I and the Father are one."

In most solemn truth I tell you that a servant is not superior to his master, nor is a messenger superior to him who sent him.

A second time, therefore, He said to them, "Peace be to you! As the Father sent me, I also now send you."

"This is My servant whom I have chosen, My dearly loved One in whom My soul takes pleasure. I will put My spirit upon Him, and He will announce justice to the nations.

I would have you know, however, that of every man, Christ is the Head, that of a woman her husband is the Head, and that God is Christ's Head.

Later on, comes the End, when He is to surrender the Kingship to God, the Father, when He shall have overthrown all other government and all other authority and power.

Although from the beginning He had the nature of God He did not reckon His equality with God a treasure to be tightly grasped.

has at the end of these days spoken to us through a Son, who is the pre-destined Lord of the universe, and through whom He made the Ages.

But Jesus--who was made a little inferior to the angels in order that through God's grace He might taste death for every human being--we already see wearing a crown of glory and honour because of His having suffered death.

Therefore, holy brethren, sharers with others in a heavenly invitation, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest whose followers we profess to be.

It said, "Write forthwith in a roll an account of what you see, and send it to the seven Churches--to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyateira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea."

General references

But grief has filled your hearts because I have said all this to you.