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JOHN 14:1 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
John 14John 14:2
“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.”
Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me — Jesus addresses the turmoil that has seized the disciples with the imminent knowledge of his departure; his command (mē tarassesthe—let not your hearts be troubled) is not to suppress emotion but to reorient trust away from circumstance toward the person of God and Jesus himself. The dual imperative—believe in God and believe in me—shows that faith in Jesus is inseparable from faith in God; to trust him is to trust the Father who sent him. This is the paradox of faith: in the face of abandonment and death, the disciples are called not to deny reality but to trust the transcendent reality that encompasses and transforms it.

Church Fathers on John 14:1

Our Lord consoles His disciples, who, as men, would be naturally alarmed and troubled at the idea of His death, by assuring them of His divinity: Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in Me; as if they must believe in Him, if they believed in God; which would not follow, unless Christ were God. you are in fear for this form of a servant; let not your heart be troubled; the form of God shall raise it up.

Augustine · 4th century

Faith, too, in Me, and in the Father that begat Me, is more powerful than anything that shall come upon you; and will prevail in spite of all difficulties. He shows His divinity at the same time by discerning their inward feelings: Let not your heart be troubled.

Chrysostom · 4th century

The many mansions agree w with the one penny, because, though one may rejoice more than another, yet all rejoice with one and the same joy, arising from the vision of their Maker.

Gregory the Great · 6th century
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