What Does John 14:23 Mean in the King James?
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The keeping of Jesus’ words flowers into a shared home where the Father and Son remain with the one who loves him.
THE MEANING
Love for Jesus takes form in treasuring and guarding his words. The Father’s love meets that keeping, and Father and Son come to make their staying place with the person. Their presence is pictured as home, not a passing arrival.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
God only comes near for a brief visit; here the promise is that the Father and Son make their home with the one who loves Jesus.
THE ROOT
μονή
monē
GROWS FROM
μένω
menō
To remain, stay, or abide.
“abode” in this verse is monē. The noun monē comes from the verb menō, “to remain,” so the promise carries the sense of staying, not just arriving. The same noun appears in John 14:2, where the KJV renders its plural as “mansions”: the Father’s dwelling and God’s home with a person belong to one word-family.
ALSO GROWS
menō: Remain, stay, abide.
μένω
This verb gives monē its sense: an abode is where someone remains.
paramenō: Remain beside, continue.
παραμένω
This compound carries the same staying-root with a sense of remaining alongside, echoing the promise that God makes an abode “with him.”
epimenō: Continue, persist, remain.
ἐπιμένω
This compound shows the root’s sense of duration: the dwelling is a continuing presence.
THE PATTERN
God’s presence is expressed as taking up residence with people, turning relationship into shared dwelling.
And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.THE THREAD
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.“Mansions” here and “abode” in John 14:23 translate the same Greek noun, μονή (monē), a dwelling-place from the word-family of “remain.” The prepared place in the Father’s house and the home made with the person who loves Jesus meet in that shared word.
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