John 14:18

THE MESSAGE

"I will not leave you orphaned. I'm coming back. In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you're going to see me because I am alive and you're about to come alive. At that moment you will know absolutely that I'm in my Father, and you're in me, and I'm in you.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.

King James Version (1611)
I wil not leaue you comfortlesse, I will come to you.

King James Version
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

English Standard Version
"I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

New American Standard Bible
"I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.

New Century Version
"I will not leave you all alone like orphans; I will come back to you.

Amplified Bible
"I will not leave you as orphans [comfortless, bereaved, and helpless]; I will come [back] to you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

Legacy Standard Bible
"I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

Berean Standard Bible
I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

Contemporary English Version
I won't leave you like orphans. I will come back to you.

Complete Jewish Bible
I will not leave you orphans — I am coming to you.

Darby Translation
I will not leave you orphans, I am coming to you.

Easy-to-Read Version
"I will not leave you all alone like orphans. I will come back to you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I will not leaue you fatherles: but I will come to you.

George Lamsa Translation
I will not leave you orphans, for I will come to you after a little while.

Good News Translation
"When I go, you will not be left all alone; I will come back to you.

Lexham English Bible
"I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.

Literal Translation
I will not leave you orphans; I am coming to you.

American Standard Version
I will not leave you desolate: I come unto you.

Bible in Basic English
I will not let you be without a friend: I am coming to you.

Hebrew Names Version
I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

International Standard Version
I am not going to forsake you like orphans. I will come back to you.Matthew 28:20; John 14:3,28;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
I will not leave you orphans; for I will come to you a little after.

Murdock Translation
I shall not leave you orphans: for I shall come to you in a little while.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I wyll not leaue you comfortlesse, but wyll come to you.

English Revised Version
I will not leave you desolate: I come unto you.

World English Bible
I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
I will not leave you orphans; I come to you.

Weymouth's New Testament
I will not leave you bereaved: I am coming to you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y schal not leeue you fadirles, Y schal come to you.

Update Bible Version
I will not leave you desolate: I come to you.

Webster's Bible Translation
I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you.

New English Translation
"I will not abandon you as orphans, I will come to you.

New King James Version
I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.

New Living Translation
No, I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you.

New Life Bible
"I will not leave you without help as children without parents. I will come to you.

New Revised Standard
"I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I will not leave you bereft, - I am coming unto you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will not leave you orphans: I will come to you.

Revised Standard Version
"I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
I will not leave you comfortlesse: but will come vnto you.

Young's Literal Translation
`I will not leave you bereaved, I come unto you;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I wil not leaue you cofortles, I come vnto you.

Mace New Testament (1729)
I will not leave you orphans; I will come again to you.

Simplified Cowboy Version
"I ain't gonna run off and leave you like a dogie calf. I'll come get you.

Contextual Overview

¹⁸"I will not leave you orphaned. I'm coming back. In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you're going to see me because I am alive and you're about to come alive. At that moment you will know absolutely that I'm in my Father, and you're in me, and I'm in you. ²¹ "The person who knows my commandments and keeps them, that's who loves me. And the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and make myself plain to him." ²² Judas (not Iscariot) said, "Master, why is it that you are about to make yourself plain to us but not to the world?" ²³"Because a loveless world," said Jesus, "is a sightless world. If anyone loves me, he will carefully keep my word and my Father will love him—we'll move right into the neighborhood! Not loving me means not keeping my words. The message you are hearing isn't mine. It's the message of the Father who sent me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

will not: John 14:16, John 14:27, John 16:33, Psalms 23:4, Isaiah 43:1, Isaiah 51:12, Isaiah 66:11-13, 2 Corinthians 1:2-6, 2 Thessalonians 2:16, Hebrews 2:18

comfortless: or, orphans, Lamentations 5:3, Hosea 14:3

will come: John 14:3, John 14:28, Psalms 101:2, Hosea 6:3, Matthew 18:20, Matthew 28:20

Reciprocal: Psalms 141:8 - leave not my soul destitute Proverbs 10:24 - the desire Proverbs 14:10 - and Luke 24:15 - Jesus John 6:19 - walking John 14:21 - and will Acts 23:11 - the Lord 2 Corinthians 1:4 - comforteth 2 Corinthians 4:8 - not in despair Philippians 2:1 - any consolation

Cross-References

Genesis 14:10
The Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into the tar pits, but the rest escaped into the mountains. The four kings captured all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah, all their food and equipment, and went on their way. They captured Lot, Abram's nephew who was living in Sodom at the time, taking everything he owned with them.

Genesis 14:22
But Abram told the king of Sodom, "I swear to God , The High God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, this solemn oath, that I'll take nothing from you, not so much as a thread or a shoestring. I'm not going to have you go around saying, ‘I made Abram rich.' Nothing for me other than what the young men ate and the share of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; they're to get their share of the plunder."

Ruth 3:10
He said, " God bless you, my dear daughter! What a splendid expression of love! And when you could have had your pick of any of the young men around. And now, my dear daughter, don't you worry about a thing; I'll do all you could want or ask. Everybody in town knows what a courageous woman you are—a real prize! You're right, I am a close relative to you, but there is one even closer than I am. So stay the rest of the night. In the morning, if he wants to exercise his customary rights and responsibilities as the closest covenant redeemer, he'll have his chance; but if he isn't interested, as God lives, I'll do it. Now go back to sleep until morning."

Psalms 7:17
I'm thanking God, who makes things right. I'm singing the fame of heaven-high God .

Micah 6:6
How can I stand up before God and show proper respect to the high God? Should I bring an armload of offerings topped off with yearling calves? Would God be impressed with thousands of rams, with buckets and barrels of olive oil? Would he be moved if I sacrificed my firstborn child, my precious baby, to cancel my sin?

Acts 7:48
"Yet that doesn't mean that Most High God lives in a building made by carpenters and masons. The prophet Isaiah put it well when he wrote, "Heaven is my throne room; I rest my feet on earth. So what kind of house will you build me?" says God. "Where I can get away and relax? It's already built, and I built it."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will not leave you comfortless,.... Gr. "orphans", or "fatherless". Christ stands in the relation of a Father to his people, and they are his children, his spiritual seed and offspring; and so the disciples might fear, that as Christ was going from them, they should be left as children without a father, in a very desolate and comfortless, condition: to support them against these fears, Christ promises that he would not leave them thus, at least not long:

I will come to you; in a very short time, as he did; for on the third day he rose again from the dead, and appeared to them, which filled them with great joy. So among the Jews, disciples, and the world too, are represented as fatherless, when their doctors and wise men are removed by death. Says R. Aba, x and so sometimes others, concerning R. Simeon ben Jochai,

"woe to the world when thou shall go out of it, woe to the generation that shall be in the world when thou shall remove from them, וישתארון יתמין, "and they shall be left fatherless by thee".''

And in another place y;

"afterwards R. Akiba went out and cried, and his eyes flowed with water, and he said, woe Rabbi, woe Rabbi, for the world is left, יתום, "fatherless by thee".''

x Zohar in Num fol. 96. 3. & in Lev. fol. 42. 3. & in Exod. fol. 10. 3. & 28. 3. y Midrash Hannealam in Zohar in Gen. fol. 65. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Comfortless - Greek, “orphans.” Jesus here addresses them as children, John 13:33. He says that he would show them the kindness of a parent, and, though he was going away, he would provide for their future welfare. And even while he was absent, yet they would sustain to him still the relation of children. Though he was to die, yet he would live again; though absent in body, yet he would be present with them by his Spirit; though he was to go away to heaven, yet he would return again to them. See John 14:3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 14:18. I will not leave you comfortless — Literally, orphans. The original word ορφανος, is by some derived from ορφνος, obscure, dark, because, says Mintert, an orphan (one deprived of father and mother) is little esteemed, neglected, and is obliged to wander about in obscurity and darkness. Others derive it from the Hebrew חרף charaph, to strip or make bare, despoil, because such a child is destitute of comfort, direction, and support, and is a prey to misery and disease, to sin and to death.

The disciples of a particular teacher among the Hebrews called him father; his scholars were called his children, and, on his death, were considered as orphans. Christ calls his disciples children, beloved children, John 13:33; and, now that he is about to be removed from them by death, he assures them that they shall not be left fatherless, or without a teacher; for in a little time he should come again, (rise from the dead,) and, after his ascension, they should be made partakers of that Spirit which would be their comforter, advocate, teacher, and guide for ever.