John 14:2

Bishops' Bible (1568)

In my fathers house, are many dwellyng places: If it were not so, I woulde haue tolde you. I go to prepare a place for you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ τοῦ Πατρός μου μοναὶ πολλαί εἰσιν: εἰ δὲ μή, εἶπον ἂν ὑμῖν. Πορεύομαι ἑτοιμάσαι τόπον ὑμῖν.

Transliteration

In the oikia of the Patros of me monai pollai eisin: ei de mē, eipon an to you. Poreuomai hetoimasai topon to you.

Grammar Details

• *oikia*: dative, feminine, singular - house/dwelling
• *Patros*: genitive, masculine, singular - Father
• *monai pollai*: nominative, feminine, plural - many dwellings/rooms
• *eisin*: present indicative, 3rd person plural - they are
• *ei de mē*: conditional negative phrase - but if not/otherwise
• *eipon an*: aorist indicative with particle, 1st person singular - I would have told
• *Poreuomai*: present indicative middle, 1st person singular - I go/am going
• *hetoimasai*: aorist infinitive active - to prepare
• *topon*: accusative, masculine, singular - place
• μου: genitive, 1st person singular pronoun - of me/my
• ὑμῖν: dative, 2nd person plural pronoun - to you

Word Meanings

• *monai*: dwelling places/rooms/abodes
• *Poreuomai*: I go/I am going/I journey
• *topon*: place/room/position/opportunity

Referenced Verses

• John 13:36 : 36 Simon Peter saide vnto him: Lorde, whither goest thou? Iesus aunswered hym: Whither I go, thou canst not folowe me nowe, but thou shalt folowe me afterwardes.
• Heb 13:14 : 14 For here haue we no continuyng citie: but we seke one to come.
• Rev 21:2 : 2 And I Iohn sawe the holy citie newe Hierusalem come downe from God out of heauen, prepared as a bride garnisshed for her husbande.
• 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we knowe, that yf our earthly house of this tabernacle were destroyed, we haue a building of God, an habitation not made with handes, but eternall in heauen.
• Rev 3:12 : 12 Hym that ouercometh, wyll I make a pyller in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: And I wyll write vpon him the name of my God, and the name of the citie of my God, newe Hierusalem, which commeth downe out of heauen from my God, and I wyll write vpon hym my newe name.
• John 16:4 : 4 But these thynges haue I tolde you, that when the tyme is come, ye may remeber then that I tolde you. These thynges sayde I not vnto you at the begynnyng, because I was present with you.
• John 13:33 : 33 Litle children, yet a litle whyle am I with you. Ye shall seeke me: and as I sayde vnto the Iewes, whither I go, thither can ye not come. Also to you say I nowe:
• Heb 11:14-16 : 14 For they that saye suche thynges, declare that they seke a countrey. 15 Also yf they had ben myndfull of that countrey from whence they came out, they had leasure to haue returned: 16 But nowe they desire a better, that is, a heauenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a citie.
• Rev 1:5 : 5 And from Iesus Christe, which is a faythfull witnesse, and first begotten of the dead, and Lorde ouer the kynges of the earth: Unto hym that loued vs, and wasshed vs from our sinnes in his owne blood,
• Heb 11:10 : 10 For he loked for a citie hauyng a foundation, whose buylder and maker is God.
• John 12:25-26 : 25 He that loueth his lyfe, shall destroy it: and he that hateth his lyfe in this worlde, shall kepe it vnto lyfe eternall. 26 If any man minister vnto me, let hym folowe me: And where I am, there shall also my minister be. If any man minister vnto me, hym wyll my father honour.
• Luke 14:26-33 : 26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother, and wyfe, and chyldren, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his owne lyfe also, he can not be my disciple. 27 And whosoeuer doth not beare his crosse, and come after me, can not be my disciple. 28 For which of you, disposed to buylde a towre, sitteth not downe before, and counteth the cost, whether he haue sufficient to perfourme it? 29 Lest after he hath layde the foundation, and is not able to perfourme it, all that beholde it, begyn to mocke hym, 30 Saying: this man began to buylde, and was not able to make an ende? 31 Or what kyng, goyng to make battell against another kyng, sitteth not downe first, and casteth in his mynde, whether he be able with ten thousande, to meete hym, that commeth agaynst hym with twentie thousande? 32 Or els, whyle the other is yet a great way of, he sendeth an imbassage, and desireth conditions of peace. 33 So lykewyse, whosoeuer he be of you, that forsaketh not all that he hath, he can not be my disciple.
• John 17:24 : 24 Father, I wyll that they which thou hast geuen me, be with me where I am, that they may see my glorie which thou hast geuen me. For thou louedst me, before the foundation of the world.
• Acts 9:16 : 16 For I wyl shew hym how great thinges he must suffer for my names sake.
• 1 Thess 3:3-4 : 3 That no man shoulde be moued in these afflictions: For ye your selues knowe, that we are appoynted therevnto. 4 For veryly when we were with you, we tolde you before that we shoulde suffer tribulation, euen as it came to passe, and as ye knowe.
• 1 Thess 5:9 : 9 For God hath not appoynted vs to wrath: but to obtayne saluation, by our Lorde Iesus Christe,
• 2 Thess 1:4-9 : 4 So that we our selues reioyce in you in the Churches of God, ouer your pacience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye suffer, 5 Which is a token of the ryghteous iudgment of God, that ye may be counted woorthy of the kyngdome of God, for which ye also suffer. 6 For it is a ryghteous thing with God, to recompence tribulation to them that trouble you: 7 And to you whiche are troubled, reste with vs, in the reuelation of the Lorde Iesus from heauen, with the Angels of his power, 8 In flamyng fire, rendryng vengeance vnto them that knowe not God, and that obey not the Gospell of our Lorde Iesus Christe. 9 Which shalbe punisshed with euerlastyng dampnation, from the presence of the Lorde, & fro the glorie of his power: 10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saintes, and to be made marueylous in all them that beleue (because our testimonie toward you was beleued) in that day.
• Titus 1:2 : 2 In the hope of eternall lyfe, which God that can not lye, promised before the worlde began:
• Heb 6:20 : 20 Whyther the forerunner is for vs entred euen Iesus, after the order of Melchisedech made a priest for euer.
• Heb 9:8 : 8 The holy ghost this signifiyng, that the waye of holy thinges was not yet opened, whyle as yet the first tabernacle was standyng:
• Heb 9:23-26 : 23 It is neede then that the paterne of heauenly thynges, be purified with such thynges: but the heauenly thynges the selues (be purified) with better sacrifices then are those. 24 For Christe is not entred into the holy places made with handes (which are) paternes of true thynges: but into heauen it selfe, nowe to appeare in the syght of God for vs. 25 Not that he shoulde offer him selfe often, as the hye priest entreth into the holy places euery yere in strauge blood: 26 (For then must he haue often suffred sence the foundation of the worlde) But nowe once in the ende of the world hath he appeared, to put away sinne, by the sacrifice of hym selfe.
• Rev 3:21 : 21 To hym that ouercommeth, wyll I graunt to sitte with me in my throne, euen as I ouercame, and haue sitten with my father in his throne.
• Rev 21:10-27 : 10 And he caryed me away in the spirite to a great and an hye mountayne, and he shewed me the great citie holy Hierusalem, descendyng out of heauen fro God, 11 Hauing the glorie of God: and her shining was lyke vnto a stone most precious, euen lyke a Iasper, cleare as Cristall. 12 And had walles great and hye, & had 12 gates, and at the gates 12 angels, & names written, which are the names of the 12 tribes of Israel. 13 On the east syde three gates, and on the north syde three gates, and towards the south three gates, and fro the west three gates. 14 And the wall of the citie had 12 foundations, and in them the 12 names of the lambes 12 Apostles. 15 And he that talked with me had a golden reede to measure the citie withall, and the gates thereof, and the wall therof. 16 And the citie was buylt foure square, & the length was as large as ye breadth: and he measured the citie with the reede twelue thousande furlonges, and the length, and the breadth, and the heyght of it were equall. 17 And he measured the wall thereof an hundreth and fourtie and foure cubites, by the measure of man, that is of the angell. 18 And the buylding of the wall of it was of Iasper, and the citie was pure golde lyke vnto cleare glasse. 19 And the foundations of the wall of the citie were garnisshed with all maner of precious stones. The first foundation was Iasper, the seconde Saphire, the third a Chalcedonie, the fourth an Emeralde, 20 The fifth Sardonix, ye sixth Sardius, the seuenth Chrysolite, the eygth Beryl, the ninth a Topas, the tenth a Chrysoprasus, the eleueth a Iacinct, ye twelfth an Amatist. 21 The 12 gates were 12 pearles, euery gate was of one pearle. and the streate of the citie was pure golde, as through shynyng glasse. 22 And I sawe no temple therin: For the Lorde God almightie and the Lambe, are the temple of it. 23 And the citie hath no neede of the sunne, neither of the moone to lighten it: For the glorie of God dyd lighten it, and the Lambe is the lyght of it. 24 And the people which are saued, shall walke in the lyght of it: and the kynges of the earth shall bryng their glorie and honor vnto it. 25 And the gates of it are not shut by day, for there shalbe no nyght. 26 And they shall bring the glory and honor of the gentiles vnto it. 27 And there shall enter into it none vncleane thyng, neither whatsoeuer worketh abhomination, or maketh lyes: but they only which are written in the lambes booke of lyfe.