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?
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.
- BSB 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?
- 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.
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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 5:1For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
- John 13:36Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you can’t follow now, but you will follow afterwards.”
- Heb 13:14For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.
- Rev 21:2I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
- Heb 11:10For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
- Rev 3:12He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.
- Heb 11:14–16For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.
- John 12:25–26He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
- John 13:33Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.
- John 17:24Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
- Heb 6:20where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
- John 16:4But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
- Heb 9:8The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;
- 1 Th 3:3–4that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
- 2 Th 1:4–10so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
- Titus 1:2in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
- Rev 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
- Rev 3:21He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
- Heb 9:23–26It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
- Luke 14:26–33“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
- 1 Th 5:9For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
- Acts 9:16For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”
- Rev 21:10–27He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
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