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The Farewell Discourse and Final Prayer of Jesus: An Exposition of John 14–17 is unavailable, but you can change that!

In The Farewell Discourse and Final Prayer of Jesus, D. A. Carson offers a penetrating exposition of John 14–17—the finale of Jesus’ teaching. These short studies touch on many of the great themes of the Christian faith, held together by the experience of the cross that loomed over Christ and his disciples at Gethsemane.

Father’s house into a market!” (2:16; cf. Luke 2:49). There, however, “my Father’s house” referred to the temple. But was not the temple understood to be the place where men could enter the very presence of God by means of sacrifices offered to atone for sin? Foreseeing that the ultimate sacrifice was himself, Jesus once claimed that the true temple was nothing less than his own body (2:21). Similarly, although “the Father’s house” was an apt description of the temple for as long as the temple served
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