{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/vws/joh014.htm","path":"bib/cmt/vws/joh014.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/vws/joh014.htm","text":"Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent, [1886]\nHeart (\u03ba\u03b1\u03c1\u03b4\u03af\u03b1)\nNever used in the New Testament, as in the Septuagint, of the mere physical organ, though sometimes of the vigor and sense of physical life (Act 14:17; Jam 5:5; Luk 21:34). Generally, the center of our complex being - physical, moral, spiritual, and intellectual. See on Mar 12:30. The immediate organ by which man lives his personal life, and where that entire personal life concentrates itself. It is thus used sometimes as parallel to \u03c8\u03c5\u03c7\u03ae, the individual life, and to \u03c0\u03bd\u03b5\u1fe6\u03bc\u03b1 the principle of life, which manifests itself in the \u03c8\u03c5\u03c7\u03ae. Strictly, \u03ba\u03b1\u03c1\u03b4\u03af\u03b1 is the immediate organ of \u03c8\u03c5\u03c7\u03ae, occupying a mediating position between it and \u03c0\u03bd\u03b5\u1fe6\u03bc\u03b1. In the heart (\u03ba\u03b1\u03c1\u03b4\u03af\u03b1) the spirit (\u03c0\u03bd\u03b5\u1fe6\u03bc\u03b1), which is the distinctive principle of the life or soul (\u03c8\u03c5\u03c7\u03ae), has the seat of its activity.\nEmotions of joy or sorrow are thus ascribed both to the heart and to the soul. Compare Joh 14:27, \"Let not your heart (\u03ba\u03b1\u03c1\u03b4\u03b9\u03ac) be troubled;\" and Joh 12:27, \"Now is my soul (\u03c8\u03c5\u03c7\u03ae) troubled.\" The heart is the focus of the religious life (Mat 22:37; Luk 6:45; Ti2 2:22). It is the sphere of the operation of grace (Mat 13:19; Luk 8:15; Luk 24:32; Act 2:37; Rom 10:9, Rom 10:10). Also of the opposite principle (Joh 13:2; Act 5:3). Used also as the seat of the understanding; the faculty of intelligence as applied to divine things (Mat 13:15; Rom 1:21; Mar 8:17).\nYe believe - believe also (\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u03cd\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u03cd\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5)\nThe verbs may be taken either as indicatives or as imperatives. Thus we may render: ye believe in God, ye believe also in me; or, believe in God and ye believe in me; or, believe in God and believe in me; or again, as A.V. The third of these renderings corresponds best with the hortatory character of the discourse.\nHouse (\u03bf\u1f30\u03ba\u03af\u1fb3)\nThe dwelling-place. Used primarily of the edifice (Mat 7:24; Mat 8:14; Mat 9:10; Act 4:34). Of the family or all the persons inhabiting the house (Mat 12:25; Joh 4:53; Co1 16:15; Mat 10:13). Of property (Mat 23:14; Mar 12:40). Here meaning heaven.\nMansions (\u03bc\u03bf\u03bd\u03b1\u1f76)\nOnly here and Joh 14:23. From \u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03c9 to stay or abide. Originally a staying or abiding or delay. Thus Thucydides, of Pausanias: \"He settled at Colonae in Troas, and was reported to the Ephors to be negotiating with the Barbarians, and to be staying there (\u03c4\u1f74\u03bd \u03bc\u03bf\u03bd\u1f74\u03bd \u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u03bf\u03cd\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2, Literally, making a stay) for no good purpose\" (i., 131). Thence, a staying or abiding-place; an abode. The word mansion has a similar etymology and follows the same course of development, being derived from manere, to remain. Mansio is thus, first, a staying, and then a dwelling-place. A later meaning of both mansio and \u03bc\u03bf\u03bd\u03ae is a halting-place or station on a journey. Some expositors, as Trench and Westcott, explain the word here according to this later meaning, as indicating the combination of the contrasted notions of progress and repose in the vision of the future. This is quite untenable. The word means here abodes. Compare Homer's description of Priam's palace:\n\"A palace built with graceful porticoes,\nAnd fifty chambers near each other, walled\nWith polished stone, the rooms of Priam's sons\nAnd of their wives; and opposite to these\nTwelve chambers for his daughters, also near\nEach other; and, with polished marble walls,\nThe sleeping-rooms of Priam's sons-in-law\nAnd their unblemished consorts.\"\n\"Iliad,\" vi., 242-250.\nGodet remarks: \"The image is derived from those vast oriental palaces, in which there is an abode not only for the sovereign and the heir to the throne, but also for all the sons of the king, however numerous they may be.\"\nIf it were not so, I would have told you (\u03b5\u1f30 \u03b4\u1f72 \u03bc\u1f74 \u03b5\u1f36\u03c0\u03bf\u03bd \u1f02\u03bd \u1f51\u03bc\u1fd6\u03bd).\nWyc., If anything less, I had said to you.\nI go to prepare, etc.\nMany earlier interpreters refer I would have told you to these words, and render I would have told you that I go to prepare a place for you. But this is inadmissible, because Jesus says (Joh 14:3) that He is actually going to prepare a place. The better rendering regards if it were not so, I would have told you, as parenthetical, and connects the following sentence with are many mansions, by means of \u1f45\u03c4\u03b9, for or because, which the best texts insert. \"In my Father's house are many mansions (if it were not so, I would have told you), for I go to prepare a place for you.\"\nI go to prepare\nCompare Num 10:33. Also Heb 6:20, \"whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus.\"\nA place (\u03c4\u03cc\u03c0\u03bf\u03bd)\nSee on Joh 11:48. The heavenly dwelling is thus described by three words: house, abode, place.\nIf I go (\u1f10\u1f70\u03bd \u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03b5\u03c5\u03b8\u1ff6)\n\u03a0\u03bf\u03c1\u03b5\u03cd\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9, go, of going with a definite object. See on Joh 8:21.\nI will come again (\u03c0\u03ac\u03bb\u03b9\u03bd \u1f14\u03c1\u03c7\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9)\nThe present tense; I come, so Rev. Not to be limited to the Lord's second and glorious coming at the last day, nor to any special coming, such as Pentecost, though these are all included in the expression; rather to be taken of His continual coming and presence by the Holy Spirit. \"Christ is, in fact, from the moment of His resurrection, ever coming into the world and to the Church, and to men as the risen Lord\" (Westcott).\nAnd receive (\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03bb\u03ae\u03c8\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9)\nHere the future tense, will receive. Rev., therefore, much better: I come again and will receive you. The change of tense is intentional, the future pointing to the future personal reception of the believer through death. Christ is with the disciple alway, continually \"coming\" to him, unto the end of the world. Then He will receive him into that immediate fellowship, where he \"shall see Him as He is.\" The verb \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1\u03bc\u03b2\u03ac\u03bd\u03c9 is used in the New Testament of taking along with (Mat 4:5, note; Mat 17:1, note; Act 16:33, note): of taking to (Mat 1:20; Joh 14:3): of taking from, receiving by transmission; so mostly in Paul (Gal 1:12; Col 2:6; Col 4:17; Th1 2:13, etc. See also Mat 24:40, Mat 24:41). It is scarcely fanciful to see the first two meanings blended in the use of the verb in this passage. Jesus, by the Spirit, takes His own along with Him through life, and then takes them to His side at death. He himself conducts them to Himself.\nI am\nSee on Joh 7:34.\nI go (\u1f51\u03c0\u03ac\u03b3\u03c9)\nWithdraw from you. See on Joh 8:21.\nYe know, and the way ye know (\u03bf\u1f34\u03b4\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5, \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c4\u1f74\u03bd \u1f41\u03b4\u1f78\u03bd \u03bf\u1f34\u03b4\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5)\nThe best texts omit the second ye know, and the and before the way; reading, whither I go ye know the way.\nAnd how can we know (\u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c0\u1ff6\u03c2 \u03b4\u03c5\u03bd\u03ac\u03bc\u03b5\u03b8\u03b1 \u03c4\u1f74\u03bd \u1f41\u03b4\u1f78\u03bd \u03b5\u1f30\u03b4\u03ad\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9)\nThe best texts substitute \u03bf\u1f34\u03b4\u03b1\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd, know we, for \u03b4\u03c5\u03bd\u03ac\u03bc\u03b5\u03b8\u03b1, can we; reading, how know we the way. So Rev. Some also omit and before how.\nI am the way\nThe disciples are engrossed with the thought of separation from Jesus. To Thomas, ignorance of whither Jesus is going involves ignorance of the way. \"Therefore, with loving condescension the figure is taken up, and they are assured that He is Himself, if we may so speak, this distance to be traversed\" (Milligan and Moulton). All along the course to the Father's house they are still with Him.\nThe truth\nAs being the perfect revelation of God the Father: combining in Himself and manifesting all divine reality, whether in the being, the law, or the character of God. He embodies what men ought to know and believe of God; what they should do as children of God, and what they should be.\nThe life\nNot only life in the future world. He is \"the principle and source of life in its temporal development and future consummation, so that whoever has not received Him into himself by faith, has become a prey to spiritual and eternal death\" (Meyer). \"He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.\" Compare Col 3:4; Joh 6:50, Joh 6:51; Joh 11:25, Joh 11:26.\n\"I am the way, the truth, and the life. Without the way there is no going; without the truth there is no knowing; without the life there is no living. I am the way which thou shouldst pursue; the truth which thou shouldst believe; the life which thou shouldst hope for\" (Thomas a Kempis, \"Imitation of Christ,\" iii., 56). On \u03b6\u03c9\u03ae, life, see on Joh 1:4.\nUnto the Father\nThe end of the way.\nHad known (\u1f10\u03b3\u03bd\u03ce\u03ba\u03b5\u03b9\u03c4\u03b5)\nRather, had learned to know, through my successive revelations of myself.\nYe should have known (\u1f10\u03b3\u03ce\u03ba\u03b5\u03b9\u03c4\u03b5 \u1f04\u03bd)\nThe same verb as above. Some editors, however, read \u1f94\u03b4\u03b5\u03b9\u03c4\u03b5, the verb signifying absolute knowledge, the knowledge of intuition and satisfied conviction. If this is adopted, it marks a contrast with the progressive knowledge indicated by \u1f10\u03b3\u03bd\u03ce\u03ba\u03b5\u03b9\u03c4\u03b5. See on Joh 2:24.\nMy Father\nNot the Father, as Joh 14:6. It is the knowledge of the Father in His relation to the Son. Through this knowledge the knowledge of God as the Father, \"in the deepest verity of His being,\" is attained. This latter knowledge is better expressed by \u03bf\u1f37\u03b4\u03b1. See on Joh 4:21.\nHave seen\nSee on Joh 1:18.\nHave I been (\u03b5\u1f30\u03bc\u03b9)\nLiterally, am I.\nKnown (\u1f10\u03b3\u03bd\u03c9\u03ba\u03ac\u03c2)\nCome to know.\nSayest thou (\u03c3\u1f7a)\nEmphatic. Thou who didst say, \"We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write\" (Joh 1:46). Omit and before how sayest thou.\nOf myself (\u1f00\u03c0' \u1f10\u03bc\u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6)\nRev., better, from myself. See on Joh 7:17.\nThe Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works (\u1f41 \u03b4\u1f72 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c4\u1f74\u03c1 \u1f41 \u1f10\u03bd \u1f10\u03bc\u03bf\u1f76 \u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd, \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1f78\u03c2 \u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u03b5\u1fd6 \u03c4\u1f70 \u1f14\u03c1\u03b3\u03b1)\nThe best texts read, \u1f41 \u03b4\u1f72 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c4\u1f74\u03c1 \u1f10\u03bd \u1f10\u03bc\u03bf\u1f76 \u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd \u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u03b5\u1fd6 \u03c4\u1f70 \u1f14\u03c1\u03b3\u03b1 \u03b1\u1f54\u03c4\u03bf\u03c5; the Father abiding in me doeth His works. Philip doubts whether Christ is in the Father, and the Father in Him. The answer is twofold, corresponding to the two phases of the doubt. His words, spoken not from Himself, are from the Father, and therefore He utters them from within the Father, and is Himself in the Father. His works are the works of the Father abiding in Him; therefore the Father is in Him.\nBelieve me (\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u03cd\u03b5\u03c4\u03ad \u03bc\u03bf\u03b9)\nThe plural of the imperative: \"believe ye me.\" Compare believest thou, Joh 14:10. These words are addressed to the disciples collectively, whose thought Philip had voiced.\nOr else (\u03b5\u1f30 \u03b4\u1f72 \u03bc\u1f74)\nLiterally, but if not. If you do not believe on the authority of my personal statement.\nFor the very works' sake (\u03b4\u03b9\u1f70 \u03c4\u1f70 \u1f14\u03c1\u03b3\u03b1 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1f70)\nLiterally, on account of the works themselves, irrespective of my oral testimony.\nGreater works\nNot more remarkable miracles, but referring to the wider work of the apostolic ministry under the dispensation of the Spirit. This work was of a higher nature than mere bodily cures. Godet truthfully says: \"That which was done by St. Peter at Pentecost, by St. Paul all over the world, that which is effected by an ordinary preacher, a single believer, by bringing the Spirit into the heart, could not be done by Jesus during His sojourn in this world.\" Jesus' personal ministry in the flesh must be a local ministry. Only under the dispensation of the Spirit could it be universal.\nIn my name\nThe first occurrence of the phrase. See on Mat 28:19. Prayer is made in the name of Jesus, \"if this name, Jesus Christ, as the full substance of the saving faith and confession of him who prays, is, in his consciousness, the element in which the prayerful activity moves; so that thus that Name, embracing the whole revelation of redemption, is that which specifically measures and defines the disposition, feeling, object, and contents of prayer. The express use of the name of Jesus therein is no specific token; the question is of the spirit and mind of him who prays\" (Meyer). Westcott cites Augustine to the effect that the prayer in Christ's name must be consistent with Christ's character, and that He fulfills it as Savior, and therefore just so far as it conduces to salvation.\nIf ye shall ask anything\nSome authorities insert me. So Rev. This implies prayer to Christ.\nKeep (\u03c4\u03b7\u03c1\u03ae\u03c3\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5)\nThe best tests read \u03c4\u03b7\u03c1\u03ae\u03c3\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5, ye will keep. Lay up in your hearts and preserve by careful watching. See on reserved, Pe1 1:4.\nMy commandments (\u03c4\u1f70\u03c2 \u1f10\u03bd\u03c4\u03bf\u03bb\u1f70\u03c2 \u03c4\u1f70\u03c2 \u1f10\u03bc\u1f70\u03c2)\nLiterally, the commandments which are mine. See on Joh 10:27.\nI will pray (\u1f10\u03c1\u03c9\u03c4\u03ae\u03c3\u03c9)\nSee on Joh 11:22.\nComforter (\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03ac\u03ba\u03bb\u03b7\u03c4\u03bf\u03bd)\nOnly in John's Gospel and First Epistle (Joh 14:16, Joh 14:26; Joh 15:26; Joh 16:7; Jo1 2:13. From \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03ac, to the side of, and \u03ba\u03b1\u03bb\u03ad\u03c9, to summon. Hence, originally, one who is called to another's side to aid him, as an advocate in a court of justice. The later, Hellenistic use of \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03ba\u03b1\u03bb\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bd and \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03ac\u03ba\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2, to denote the act of consoling and consolation, gave rise to the rendering Comforter, which is given in every instance in the Gospel, but is changed to advocate in Jo1 2:1, agreeably to its uniform signification in classical Greek. The argument in favor of this rendering throughout is conclusive. It is urged that the rendering Comforter is justified by the fact that, in its original sense, it means more than a mere consoler, being derived from the Latin confortare, to strengthen, and that the Comforter is therefore one who strengthens the cause and the courage of his client at the bar: but, as Bishop Lightfoot observes, the history of this interpretation shows that it is not reached by this process, but grew out of a grammatical error, and that therefore this account can only be accepted as an apology after the fact, and not as an explanation of the fact. The Holy Spirit is, therefore, by the word \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03ac\u03ba\u03bb\u03b7\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2, of which Paraclete is a transcription, represented as our Advocate or Counsel, \"who suggests true reasonings to our minds, and true courses of action for our lives, who convicts our adversary, the world, of wrong, and pleads our cause before God our Father.\" It is to be noted that Jesus as well as the Holy Spirit is represented as Paraclete. The Holy Spirit is to be another Paraclete, and this falls in with the statement in the First Epistle, \"we have an advocate with God, even Jesus Christ.\" Compare Rom 8:26. See on Luk 6:24. Note also that the word another is \u1f04\u03bb\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd, and not \u1f15\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd, which means different. The advocate who is to be sent is not different from Christ, but another similar to Himself. See on Mat 6:24.\nWith you (\u03bc\u03b5\u03b8' \u1f51\u03bc\u1ff6\u03bd)\nNotice the three prepositions used in this verse to describe the Spirit's relation to the believer. With you (\u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03ac), in fellowship; by you (\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03ac), in His personal presence; in you (\u1f10\u03bd), as an indwelling personal energy, at the springs of the life.\nThe Spirit of Truth\n\"A most exquisite title,\" says Bengel. The Spirit, who has the truth, reveals it, by knowledge in the understanding; confers it by practical proof and taste in the will; testifies of it to others also through those to whom He has revealed it; and defends that truth, of which Joh 1:17 speaks, grace and truth.... The truth makes all our virtues true. Otherwise there is a kind of false knowledge, false faith, false hope, false love; but there is no such thing as false truth.\"\nThe world\nSee on Joh 1:9.\nShall be in you\nSome editors read, \u1f10\u03c3\u03c4\u03af\u03bd, is in you.\nLeave (\u1f00\u03c6\u03ae\u03c3\u03c9)\nSee on Joh 4:3.\nComfortless (\u1f40\u03c1\u03c6\u03b1\u03bd\u03bf\u03cd\u03c2)\nLiterally, bereft or orphans. Only here and Jam 1:27, where it is rendered fatherless. Compare my little children (Joh 13:33). \"He hath not left us without a rule (Joh 13:34); nor without an example (Joh 13:15); nor without a motive (Joh 14:15); nor without a strength (Joh 15:5); nor without a warning (Joh 15:2, Joh 15:6); nor without a Comforter (Joh 14:18); nor without a reward (Joh 14:2) (James Ford, \"The Gospel of St. John Illustrated\").\nI will come (\u1f14\u03c1\u03c7\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9)\nPresent tense, I come. See on Joh 14:3.\nYe shall live also (\u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f51\u03bc\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c2 \u03b6\u03ae\u03c3\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b5)\nThis may also be rendered, and ye shall live, explaining the former statement, ye behold me. So Rev., in margin. This is better. John is not arguing for the dependence of their life on Christ's, but for fellowship with Christ as the ground of spiritual vision.\nHath\n\"Who has in memory and keeps in life\" (Augustine).\nWill manifest (\u1f10\u03bc\u03c6\u03b1\u03bd\u03af\u03c3\u03c9)\nProperly, of manifestation to the sight, as distinguished from \u03b4\u03b7\u03bb\u03cc\u03c9, to make evident to the mind (Co1 3:13; Col 1:8, etc.). A clear, conspicuous manifestation is indicated. Compare ye see me (Joh 14:19). \"It conveys more than the disclosing of an undiscovered presence (\u1f00\u03c0\u03bf\u03ba\u03b1\u03bb\u03cd\u03c0\u03c4\u03c9), or the manifesting of a hidden one (\u03c6\u03b1\u03bd\u03b5\u03c1\u03cc\u03c9)\" (Westcott).\nJudas\nSee on Thaddaeus, Mar 3:18.\nNot Iscariot\nThe Rev. improves the translation by placing these words immediately after Judas. \"He distinguishes the godly Judas, not by his own surname, but by the negation of the other's; marking at the same time the traitor as present again after his negotiation with the adversaries, but as having no sympathy with such a question\" (Bengel).\nHow is it (\u03c4\u03af \u03b3\u03ad\u03b3 \u03bf\u03bd\u03b5\u03bd)\nLiterally, what has come to pass. Implying that Judas thought that some change had taken place in Jesus' plans. He had assumed that Jesus would, as the Messiah, reveal Himself publicly.\nMy word (\u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03bd \u03bc\u03bf\u03c5)\nThe entire gospel message, as distinguished from its separate parts or commandments.\nWe will come\nAbode (\u03bc\u03bf\u03bd\u1f74\u03bd)\nSee on Joh 14:2. Compare Jo1 2:24; Jo1 5:15.\nMy sayings (\u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2)\nRev., words. Compare word, Joh 14:23. The constituent parts of the one word.\nBeing yet present (\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd)\nRev., stronger and more literally, while yet abiding.\nSee on Joh 14:13.\nHe (\u1f10\u03ba\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2)\nSetting the Advocate distinctly and sharply before the hearers. The pronoun is used in John's First Epistle, distinctively of our Lord. See Jo1 2:6; Jo1 3:3, Jo1 3:5, Jo1 3:7, Jo1 3:16; Jo1 4:17.\nI have said (\u03b5\u1f36\u03c0\u03bf\u03bd)\nThe aorist tense, I said.\nPeace\n\"These are last words, as of one who is about to go away and says 'good-night' or gives his blessing\" (Luther). Peace! was the ordinary oriental greeting at parting. Compare Joh 20:21.\nMy peace I give\nCompare Jo1 3:1. \"It is of his own that one gives\" (Godet).\nLet it be afraid (\u03b4\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u03b9\u03ac\u03c4\u03c9)\nOnly here in the New Testament. Properly it signifies cowardly fear. Rev., fearful. The kindred adjective \u03b4\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u03cc\u03c2 fearful, is used by Matthew of the disciples in the storm (Mat 8:26), and in Revelation of those who deny the faith through fear of persecution (Rev 21:8). The kindred noun, \u03b4\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u03af\u03b1, occurs only in Ti2 1:7, \"God hath not given us the spirit of fear,\" contrasted with the spirit of power, love, and a sound mind.\nI said\nOmit, and read, ye would have rejoiced because I go unto the Father.\nHereafter I will not talk (\u03bf\u1f50\u03ba \u1f14\u03c0\u03b9 \u03bb\u03b1\u03bb\u03ae\u03c3\u03c9)\nRev., more correctly, I will no more speak.\nThe prince of this world\nThe best texts read, \"of the world.\"\nHath nothing in me\nNo right nor power over Christ which sin in Him could give. The Greek order is, in me he hath nothing.\nBut that the world may know, etc.\nThe connection in this verse is much disputed. Some explain, Arise, let us go hence, that the world may know that I love the Father, and that even as the Father commanded me so I do. Others, So I do, that the world may know - and even as the Father, etc. Others, again, take the opening phrase as elliptical, supplying either, he cometh, i.e., Satan, in order that the world may know - and that as the Father, etc.; or, I surrender myself to suffering and death that the world may know, etc. In this case, Arise, etc., will form, as in A.V. and Rev., an independent sentence. I incline to adopt this. The phrase \u1f00\u03bb\u03bb' \u1f35\u03bd\u03b1, but in order that, with an ellipsis, is common in John. See Joh 1:8, Joh 1:31; Joh 9:3; Joh 13:18; Joh 15:25; Jo1 2:19.","title":"Vincent's Word Studies: John: John Chapter 14","type":"page"}