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"I will come again and will receive you to myself" (14:3). When, and how?

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Jesus speaks of coming more than once in this chapter. "I will come again and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also" (14:3). "I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you" (14:18). "Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me" (14:19). "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him" (14:23). And he reminds them, "You heard how I told you, ‘I am going away, and I will come back to you.’" (14:28). John 14 gives these sayings in one conversation and doesn't say when each comes about, or how they fit together. These notes set them side by side and don't either.

The verses

“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.”
John 14:3 · World English Bible
“I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.”
John 14:18-19 · World English Bible
“Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.”
John 14:23 · World English Bible
“You heard how I told you, ‘I am going away, and I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.”
John 14:28 · World English Bible

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John 14: In my Father’s house

The homes of "In my Father’s house are many homes" (14:2) and the home of "we will come to him and make our home with him" (14:23) are the same Greek word, and the New Testament has it nowhere else.

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Last reviewed October 2, 2026. Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain. Every answer cites the verses it rests on. What we believe · All Bible questions