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.
If there were no room for His disciples in heaven, Christ would not deceive them with vain hope but would have plainly said so. He goes before not to reign alone but to prepare a place for them. This whole speech is an allegory of His departure and our following.
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The many mansions do not mean different degrees of glory, for all saints are loved with the same love, bought with the same price, justified by the same righteousness. They signify fullness and sufficiency of room for all His ordained people, that none who are His shall be shut out.
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Christ observed their trouble, though it arose from various sources: grief over Peter's denial, sorrow at His own suffering and death. But godly self-examination must not overwhelm the spirit or quench holy joy. He addresses not their outward circumstance but their inward affliction, which He knows intimately.
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Commenting on John 14:1-3