John 14:27-31 (ESVST) Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.  Peace be with you was a common way of greeting among the Jews. However, Jesus here implies that the type […]

John 14:22-26 (ESVST) Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “ Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered him, “ If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our […]

John 14:15-21 (ESVST) 15 “ If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, […]

John 14:15 (ESVST) 15 “ If you love me, you will keep my commandments.  This is one verse that has sparked quite a lot of controvesy especially among the Roman Catholic  Church or similar churches and the Reformers or Protestant Churches or similar churches. This is because the Roman Catholic Church beleives in Salvation by […]

John 14:7-14 (ESVST) If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” Jesus just told his disciples that he was the way the truth and the life and that no one comes to the Father except through him. Now Jesus tells […]

Jesus is still with his disciples at the last supper and he had already washed their feet, given them the new love commandment, told them who was going to betray him and told Peter that he was going to deny him. All this was in chapter 13. These kind of news would obviously create anxiety […]