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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - John 14:19 - 14:19
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world seeth - beholdeth.
me no more, but ye see - behold.
me - His bodily presence, being all the sight of Him which “the world” ever had, or was capable of, it “beheld Him no more” after His departure to the Father; but by the coming of the Spirit, the presence of Christ was not only continued to His spiritually enlightened disciples, but rendered far more efficacious and blissful than His bodily presence had been before the Spirit’s coming.
because I live - not “shall live,” only when raised from the dead; for it is His unextinguishable, divine life of which He speaks, in view of which His death and resurrection were but as shadows passing over the sun’s glorious disk. (Compare Luk 24:5; Rev 1:18, “the Living One”). And this grand saying Jesus uttered with death immediately in view. What a brightness does this throw over the next clause, “ye shall live also!” “Knowest thou not,” said Luther to the King of Terrors, “that thou didst devour the Lord Christ, but wert obliged to give Him back, and wert devoured of Him? So thou must leave me undevoured because I abide in Him, and live and suffer for His name’s sake. Men may hunt me out of the world - that I care not for - but I shall not on that account abide in death. I shall live with my Lord Christ, since I know and believe that He liveth!” (quoted in Stier).