John 14 Bible study: In my Father’s house

Jesus is still speaking with his disciples. He had told them, "Little children, I will be with you a little while longer" (13:33), and Simon Peter asked, "Lord, where are you going?" (13:36). Jesus answered Peter (13:36-38), and his words go straight on: "Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me" (14:1) (tap troubled). In the Greek, your in 14:1 is plural: he is speaking to more than Peter. Then: "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" (14:2) (tap homes), and "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also" (14:3). John 14 says no more about the house, the homes or the place than these words, and these notes don't either. "You know where I go, and you know the way" (14:4). "Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”" (14:5). Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me" (14:6) (tap way, truth, life). Thomas asked about the way, and Jesus answers with the same word. He goes on, "If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him and have seen him" (14:7). These notes quote 14:6 as the WEB has it and add nothing to its words.

Exodus 33:18→leads toJohn 14:8-9

Moses prayed, "please show me your way, now, that I may know you" (33:13), and "Please show me your glory" (33:18). At supper with his disciples (John 13:2), Philip said to Jesus, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us" (John 14:8). Jesus answered, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father" (John 14:9). Jesus doesn't cite Exodus 33, so this is a reading: some hear in Philip's request the same longing as Moses', and in Jesus' answer what Moses asked for; others read the passage on its own.

μονήmonesay mon-AY

Strong's: "a staying, i.e. residence (the act or the place)". "In my Father’s house are many homes" (14:2). Here is what almost everyone misses: the New Testament has this word only twice (counted in RP2018, the Byzantine text the WEB translates), and both are in this chapter. The other is in Jesus's answer to Judas (not Iscariot): "we will come to him and make our home with him" (14:23). John 14 doesn't say how the two sayings bear on each other, and these notes don't either. House in 14:2 is a different word, oikia (G3614).