In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
Parallel translations
- WEB In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
- KJV In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
- NKJV In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
- NASB In My Father’s house are many rooms; if that were not so, I would have told you, because I am going there to prepare a place for you.
- NLT There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?
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Quick answer
Jesus assures them that His Father's house has many rooms and that He goes to prepare a place for them. It promises a secure, prepared dwelling with God for His people.
Overview
The 'Father's house' pictures the heavenly home where believers will dwell with God forever. Jesus' going to prepare a place points to His death, resurrection, and ascension, which open the way into God's presence. The verse offers profound hope: Christ Himself secures an eternal home for all who trust Him.
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Cross-references · 23
- 2 Cor 5:1Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
- John 13:36“Lord, where are You going?” Simon Peter asked. Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you cannot follow Me now, but you will follow later.”
- Heb 13:14For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
- Rev 21:2I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
- Heb 11:10For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
- Rev 3:12The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name.
- Heb 11:14–16Now those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own.
- John 12:25–26Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
- John 13:33Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
- John 17:24Father, I want those You have given Me to be with Me where I am, that they may see the glory You gave Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
- Heb 6:20where Jesus our forerunner has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
- John 16:4But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
- Heb 9:8By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing.
- 1 Th 3:3–4so that none of you would be shaken by these trials. For you know that we are destined for this.
- 2 Th 1:4–10That is why we boast among God’s churches about your perseverance and faith in the face of all the persecution and affliction you are enduring.
- Titus 1:2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
- Rev 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,
- Rev 3:21To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
- Heb 9:23–26So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
- Luke 14:26–33“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
- 1 Th 5:9For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Acts 9:16I will show him how much he must suffer for My name.”
- Rev 21:10–27And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,
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