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The House with Many Rooms: The Temple Theme of Jn. 14:2–3 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The text of John 14:2-3 bristles with difficulties. It describes the redemptive work of Christ in terms which pertain to the family and its intimate personal relationships. However, careful examination also reveals significant temple implications. The text states equivalently that the New Temple of the risen Jesus is the way of access to the heavenly temple of the Father’s house. Moreover, the...

. The phrase πρὸς ἐμαυτόν designates Jesus himself explicitly and directly as the goal of his own future intervention in favour of his disciples. This means that Jesus will take the disciples to be personally reunited with himself, or take them into his own company or fellowship with himself.51 A comparison with the parallel text of Jn 17:24c illustrates the meaning well: παραλήμψομαι ὑμ. πρὸς ἐμαυτόν
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