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  EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS ON JOHN - JOHN 14:27-31
  by J.C. Ryle
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"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; I do not give it to you
as the world does. Do not let your hearts be distressed or lacking in
courage. You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away and I am coming
back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to
the Father, because the Father is greater than I am. I have told you now
before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe. I will not
speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He
has no power over me, but I am doing just what the Father commanded me,
so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go
from here."

We ought not to leave the closing portion of this wonderful chapter
without noticing one striking feature in it. That feature is the
singular frequency with which our Lord uses the expression, "My Father,"
and "the Father." In the last five verses we find it four times. In the
whole chapter it occurs no less than twenty-two times. In this respect
the chapter stands alone in the Bible.

The reason of this frequent use of the expression, is a deep subject.
Perhaps the less we speculate and dogmatize about it the better. Our
Lord was one who never spoke a word without a meaning, and we need not
doubt there was a meaning here. Yet may we not reverently suppose that
He desired to leave on the minds of His disciples a strong impression of
his entire unity with the Father? Seldom does our Lord lay claim to such
high dignity, and such power of giving and supplying comfort to His
Church, as in this discourse. Was there not, then, a fitness in His
continually reminding His disciples that in all His giving He was one
with the Father, and did nothing without the Father? This, at any rate,
seems a fair conjecture. Let it be taken for what it is worth.

We should observe, for one thing, in this passage, Christ\

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