Charles Spurgeon Commentary John 14:2

"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." — John 14:2 (ASV)

In my Father's house are many mansions:

So there is room for many, there are homes for many, there is wealth for many; In my Father's house are many mansions:

If it were not so, I would have told you.

The Saviour seems to say to his disciples, "I keep nothing back from you; had there been some sorrowful fact to be revealed to you, I would have told you of it by now."

I go to prepare a place for you.

"There must be a heaven, for I am going there myself, and I am going on purpose to make it ready for you."

In my Father's house are many mansion: if it were not so, I would have told you.

Wicked men will shut you out of my Father's house below. The temple at Jerusalem, though it is still used for Jewish worship after all its ritual and ceremonialism have been abolished, will cease to be my Father's house to you.

But there is a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, and there is room for all of you there.

When this country becomes a desert to you, remember that there is the home country, the blessed glory land, on the other side of the river, and the Father's house there with its many mansions.

In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

Our Lord was going away, but he was going away with a purpose, and a grand purpose too – a purpose which had to do with the everlasting future of his beloved ones. I go to prepare a place for you.

In my Father's house are many mansions:

You are at home in Christ even now if you are a believer in him.

Wherever you are, you are your Heavenly Father's own child; and you have realized the truth of what David wrote in Psalm 23, I will dwelt in the house of the Lord for ever.

Usually, when we are singing that sweetly-solemn hymn, beginning – "For ever with the Lord," we are thinking about heaven. That is quite right; but "for ever" means now as well as the future, it covers time here as well as eternity in glory.

We are with the Lord even now; whether we are down here or up there.

If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

So that, when you go from this earth, you need not fear that you will be launched into space, or that you will have to plunge into the great unknown.

In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you.

"You have all my heart, so I have no secrets from you. If it were not so, I would have told you; even in going away from you, I am going away for your good."

In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

This was very largely the cause of their trouble; they were full of sorrow because their Lord and Master was going away from them; yet he was going for their good. It was with a set purpose that he was leaving them, and the same reason still keeps him away from us. We are not to mourn for him as we might for one slain in battle, who would never come back to us. He has gone for a little while to another country, to the great Father's house, upon a most gracious and necessary errand: I go to prepare a place for you. The Spirit of God is down here to prepare us for the place; the Son of God is up yonder to prepare the place for us.

In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

There is no room for you on earth; there will be in heaven. If troubles should multiply so much that it seems impossible to live in them, you will be carried away where you will live above them: In my Father's house are many mansions.

You may depend upon the love of Christ, beloved, for if there were anything dark, mysterious, or distressing, which would lead you to despair, he would not have kept it back.

He treats you frankly. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go, and you are sorry that I go. It is the source of your sorrow. But I go to prepare place for you.