Charles Spurgeon Commentary John 14:19

"Yet a little while, and the world beholdeth me no more; but ye behold me: because I live, ye shall live also." — John 14:19 (ASV)

Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

What a wealth of meaning these words contain! The sentences are very simple, but they are also sublime. The gorgeous language, in which some orators indulge, is, when its meaning is condensed, like great clouds of steam that produce only a few drops of water. But here, you have vast reservoirs pressed into a small compass, and those sentences that seem most plain are really the most deep.

Because I live, ye shall live also. As surely as Christ lives, so must his people. They cannot die, for he lives, to die no more, and they live in him.