Father S House Many Mansions Meaning
I go to prepare a place for you.
Father s house many mansions meaning. Apart from jesus immediate context celebrating the last passover supper with his disciples in an oikia a palatial estate lk. 14 2 in my father s house are many mansions enough to receive both the holy angels and your predecessors in the faith and all that now believe and a great multitude which no man can number. I go to prepare a place for you. In my father s house are many mansions.
If not i would have told you. It may be a house or even a planet which he inhabits just as earth is our dwelling place. King james bible in my father s house are many mansions. Across most of its forms including as an adjective mone s primary sense is being alone solitary.
In the ancient culture a father s house was where the extended family lived. Joh 14 2 in my father s house are many mansions. It apparently has not troubled many christians that in my father s house are many mansions is nonsensical as mansion is popularly understood my father s house. Does he perhaps have in mind the multi leveled many roomed mansion where they were currently celebrating.
Jesus is not telling us that heaven has compartments or that we will have little places in which to live. The most likely here are its meaning as an adjective which in greek can be used as a noun and its meaning as a noun. The word for mansion is μονή monay. These word s meanings as an adjective or noun are different.
In my fathers house are many mansions. John 14 2 in my father s house are many mansions. It means a dwelling an abode. You haven t even come close to addressing the question.
If that were not so would i have told you that i am going there to prepare a place for you. 22 10 versus an oikos normal private dwelling these words of jesus should appear to us highly unusual. Today most translations say many dwelling places nrsv or plenty of room as the tniv helpfully puts it. But if one read s further in john chapter 14 you will see that it s the place or abode of the holy spirit.
In speaking to his disciples jesus said in my father s house are many mansions john 14 2 kjv. John 14 2 says in the king james version in my father s house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you the niv has this my father s house has many rooms. Or abiding places homes of rest and peace and sojourn.
This mansion would be somewhere in the sky. People s bible notes for john 14 2. Jesus central meaning is this. In my father s house are many mansions.
About what it means. If it were not so i would have told you. His house is where he lives. There is plenty of room with god.
Myfather is the grandest name of all the divine fatherhood as conceived in the consciousness of jesus and revealed to them. Christian standard bible in my father s house are many rooms. Many view the usage of the word mansion in john 14 2 as a literal mansion that one would physically dwell in.