Quotes & Notes on:     John 14:23    John Wesley,  Notes On the New Testament (1755):  Jesus answered-Because ye love and obey me, and they do not, therefore I will reveal myself to you, and not to them. My Father will love him-The more any man loves and obeys, the more God will love him. And we will come to him, and make our abode with him-Which implies such a large manifestation of the Divine presence and love, that the former in justification is as nothing in comparison of it. Reginald Fuller's Preaching the Lectionary (1984):  To be posted.   William Baird, Interpreter's Commentary, 1971:  To be posted.   J. McNicol, The New Bible Commentary, 1954:  To be posted.   I.H. Marshall, The New Bible Commentary, 1970:  To be posted.   David Guzik, Study Guide: To be posted.   Chuck Smith, Study Guide: To be posted.   Catechism of the Catholic Church: To be posted.   J. Norval Geldenhuys, Bible Expositor, 1960: To be posted.   Abingdon Bible Commentary (1929): To be posted.   D.D. Whedon, Commentary on Luke, 1866: To be posted.   Joseph Parker, People's Bible, 1901: To be posted.   The Fourfold Gospel:  Jesus contents himself by pointing out to Judas the fact that loving obedience is the means by which the blessed indwelling is obtained. It was better that Judas should busy his heart and will about the means of blessing rather than his head about the mysterious and incomprehensible manner of it. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: * If. Joh 14:15,21 * make. Joh 14:17; 5:17-19; 6:56; 10:30; Ge 1:26; 11:7; Ps 90:1; 91:1; Isa 57:15 Ro 8:9-11; 1Jo 2:24; 4:4,15,16; Re 3:20; 7:15-17; 21:22; 22:3.   Robertson's Word Pictures:  If a man love me (ean tis agapâi me). Condition of third class with ean and present active subjunctive, "if one keep on loving me." That is key to the spiritual manifestation (emphanizô). We will come (eleusometha). Future middle of erchomai and first person plural (the Father and I), not at the judgment, but here and now. And make our abode with him (kai monên par' autôi poiêsometha). See verse Joh 14:2 for the word monê (dwelling, abiding place). If the Holy Spirit "abides" (menei, verse Joh 14:17) in you, that heart becomes a temple (naos) of the Holy Spirit (1Co 3:16), and so a fit dwelling place for the Father and the Son, a glorious and uplifting reality.   William Burkitt's Notes: Observe here, How our Saviour still goes on to direct and encourage his disciples to evidence the sincerity of their love to his person, but the universality of their obedience to his commands; and tells them how great their advantage would be by so doing. For first, The Father would love them; that is, manifest his favour to them in farther dispensations of grace and comfort. Learn thence, That all the manifestations of divine love to the souls of believers, depend upon their close walking with God in the paths of holiness and strict obedience. Secondly, We will make our abode with him. He shall have Father and Son's company. An illusion to a parent that has many children; he will be sure to live with them that are most dutiful to him, and most observant of him. The expression of making their abode with us, denotes that sweet and intimate fellowship which shall be betwixt God and us, and the perpetuity and constancy of it at all times; till we are taken up by him into heaven, he will make his abode with us, by the indwelling presence of his Holy Spirit, the graces and comforts whereof shall abide with us for ever.   Family Bible Notes: Love to Jesus Christ will lead a man to obey his commands, and will secure to him the illuminating, purifying, and blissful presence of both the Father and the Son. They shall dwell with him and he with them, and his habitual communion be truly with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ. 1Jo 1:3.   1599 Geneva Bible Notes: No comment on this verse.   People's New Testament Commentary: No comment on this verse.   Albert Barnes' Commentary:  We will come to him. We will come to him with the manifestation of pardon, peace of conscience, and joy in the Holy Ghost. It means that God will manifest himself to the soul as a Father and Friend; that Jesus will manifest himself as a Saviour; that is, that there will be shed abroad in the heart just views and proper feelings toward God and Christ. The Christian will rejoice in the perfections of God and of Christ, and will delight to contemplate the glories of a present Saviour. The condition of a sinner is represented as one who has gone astray from God, and from whom God has withdrawn, Ps 58:3; Pr 27:10 Eze 14:11. He is alienated from God, Eph 2:12; Isa 1:4; Eph 4:18 Col 1:21. Religion is represented as God returning to the soul, and manifesting himself as reconciled through Jesus Christ, 2Co 5:18; Col 1:21. Make our abode. This is a figurative expression implying that God and Christ would manifest themselves in no temporary way, but that it would be the privilege of Christians to enjoy their presence continually. They would take up their residence in the heart as their dwelling-place, as a temple fit for their abode. See 1Co 3:16: "Ye are the temple of God;" Joh 14:19: "Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost;" 2Co 6:16: "Ye are the temple of the living God." This does not mean that there is any personal union between Christians and God--that there is any peculiar indwelling of the essence of God in us-- for God is essentially present in all places in the same way; but it is a figurative mode of speaking, denoting that the Christian is under the influence of God; that he rejoices in his presence, and that he has the views, the feelings, the joys which God produces in a redeemed soul, and with which he is pleased. {v} "and we will come into him" 1Jo 2:24; Re 3:20   Jamieson-Faussett Brown:  we will come and make our abode with him--Astonishing statement! In the Father's "coming" He "refers to the revelation of Him as a Father to the soul, which does not take place till the Spirit comes into the heart, teaching it to cry, Abba, Father" [OLSHAUSEN]. The "abode" means a permanent, eternal stay! (Compare Le 26:11,12; Eze 37:26,27; 2Co 6:16; and contrast Jer 14:8).   Spurgeon Devotional Commentary:  Here is the reason for special manifestation, namely, special and mutual love. The Father and the Son love to abide where the are welcomed by humble and affectionate hearts, for these are habitations which they have themselves prepared for their own indwelling.   Adam Clarke's Commentary:  If a man] Not only my present disciples, but all those who shall believe on me through their word, or that of their successors: Love me] Receive me as his Saviour, and get the love of God shed abroad in his heart by the Holy Ghost: He will keep my words] Observe all my sayings, and have his affections and conduct regulated by my Spirit and doctrine: My Father will love him] Call him his child; support, defend, and preserve him as such. And we will come unto him] God the Father, through his Son, will continue to pour out his choicest blessings upon his head and upon his heart: And make our abode with him.] Will make his heart our temple, where God, the Father, Son, and Spirit, shall rest, receive homage, and dwell to eternity. Thus will I manifest myself to the believing, loving, obedient disciple, and not to the world, who will not receive the Spirit of the truth.   Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary: To be posted.

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