John 14:3

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am, you may be also.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἐὰν πορευθῶ καὶ ἑτοιμάσω ὑμῖν τόπον, πάλιν ἔρχομαι, καὶ παραλήψομαι ὑμᾶς πρὸς ἐμαυτόν· ἵνα ὅπου εἰμὶ ἐγώ, καὶ ὑμεῖς ἦτε.

Transliteration

And if poreuthō and hetoimasō for you topon, palin erchomai, and paralēpsomai you pros emauton; hina hopou eimi egō, also you ēte.

Grammar Details

• *poreuthō*: aorist subjunctive passive, 1st person singular - I go/should go
• *hetoimasō*: aorist subjunctive active, 1st person singular - I prepare/should prepare
• *topon*: accusative, masculine, singular - place
• *palin*: adverb - again/back
• *erchomai*: present indicative middle, 1st person singular - I come/am coming
• *paralēpsomai*: future indicative middle, 1st person singular - I will receive/take with me
• *pros emauton*: preposition + accusative reflexive pronoun - to myself
• *hina*: conjunction - so that/in order that
• *hopou*: adverb - where
• *eimi*: present indicative, 1st person singular - I am
• *egō*: nominative, 1st person singular pronoun - I
• *ēte*: present subjunctive, 2nd person plural - you may be
• ὑμῖν: dative, 2nd person plural pronoun - to you/for you
• ὑμᾶς: accusative, 2nd person plural pronoun - you
• ὑμεῖς: nominative, 2nd person plural pronoun - you

Word Meanings

• *paralēpsomai*: take with me/receive/accept

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to myself; that where I am, there you may be also.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And{G2532} if{G1437} I go{G4198} and{G2532} prepare{G2090} a place{G5117} for you,{G5213} I come{G2064} again,{G3825} and{G2532} will receive{G3880} you{G5209} unto{G4314} myself;{G1683} that{G2443} where{G3699} I{G1473} am,{G1510} [there] ye{G5210} may be{G5600} also.{G2532}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And{G2532} if{G1437} I go{G4198}{(G5680)} and{G2532} prepare{G2090}{(G5661)} a place{G5117} for you{G5213}, I will come{G2064}{(G5736)} again{G3825}, and{G2532} receive{G3880}{(G5695)} you{G5209} unto{G4314} myself{G1683}; that{G2443} where{G3699} I{G1473} am{G1510}{(G5748)}, there ye{G5210} may be{G5600}{(G5753)} also{G2532}.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And yf I go to prepare a place for you I will come agayne and receave you eve vnto my selfe yt where I am there maye ye be also.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And though I go to prepare the place for you, yet wil I come agayne, and receaue you vnto myself, yt ye maye be where I am.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And if I go to prepare a place for you, I wil come againe, and receiue you vnto my selfe, that where I am, there may ye be also.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And yf I go to prepare a place for you, I wyll come agayne, and receaue you, euen vnto my selfe: that where I am, there may ye be also.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ‹And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am,› [there] ‹ye may be also.›

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, `there' ye may be also.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.

• World English Bible (2000)

  If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be too.

Referenced Verses

• John 12:26 : 26 If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me. And where I am, there My servant also will be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
• John 14:18-23 : 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you. 19 In a little while, the world will see me no longer, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21 The one who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him. 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, 'Lord, how is it that you are going to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?' 23 Jesus answered, 'If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.'
• John 14:28 : 28 You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
• Acts 1:11 : 11 They said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way that you have seen Him go into heaven."
• John 17:24 : 24 Father, I desire that those You have given Me may be with Me where I am, to see My glory, the glory You gave Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
• 1 Thess 4:16-17 : 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
• 2 Thess 1:12-2:1 : 12 So that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,
• 2 Tim 2:12 : 12 If we endure, we will also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He will also deny us.
• Heb 9:28 : 28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to bring salvation to those who are eagerly waiting for Him.
• 1 John 3:2-3 : 2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. But we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
• Rev 21:22-23 : 22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.
• Rev 22:3-5 : 3 There will no longer be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will worship him. 4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. 5 There will no longer be any night, and they will not need the light of a lamp or the sun, for the Lord God will give them light, and they will reign forever and ever.
• Matt 25:32-34 : 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them from one another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. 34 Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
• Acts 7:59-60 : 59 While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.' 60 Then he fell to his knees and cried out, 'Lord, do not hold this sin against them.' When he had said this, he fell asleep.
• Rom 8:17 : 17 If we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in His sufferings so that we may also share in His glory.
• 2 Cor 5:6-8 : 6 Therefore, we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord. 7 (For we live by faith, not by sight.) 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
• Phil 1:23 : 23 I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better;
• Rev 3:21 : 21 The one who conquers I will grant to sit with me on my throne, just as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on His throne.