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|Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
|Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
|Do not let your heart be troubled. Believe in God, and believe in Me.
|Do not let your heart be troubled. Believe in God, and believe in Me.
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|The Greek present indicative (statements) and present imperative (commands) have the same endings (except that the imperative, obviously, does not have a first person). Because of that, it is sometimes difficult to tell if something is a statement or a command. The KJV translation chooses to translate the first clause as an indicative (a statement = "ye believe in God") and the second as an imperative (a command = "believe also in me"). The context of the construction, however, makes it much more likely that BOTH are imperatives, and so I have translated it.
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|In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
|In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
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|In my Father's house there are many rooms; I would have told you if it were not true. I go to prepare a place for you.
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|μονή is kind of a generic "dwelling place" which usually references houses, but can be almost anything that one lives in. Since these are INSIDE a house, the most likely meaning is "rooms."
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|And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
|And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
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|And if I went and prepared a place for you, I will come back and receive you to myself, so that where I am, there you can also be.
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|And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
|And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
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|Because you know the route to where I am going."
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|Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
|Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
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|Thomas replied, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the route?"
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|Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
|Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
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|Jesus said, "I am the Route, the Truth, and the Life. No man comes to the Father except through Me.
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