We are coming to the end of the I am statements in the book of John. We are in John 14 where Jesus is going to make a wonderful statement.
A little context here: Jesus is in the upper room with His disciples on the night that He was betrayed just before the crucifixion. He is now revealing to them that He is going away. They are troubled by that. So much so, that in John 14:1 He says, “Do not let your heart be troubled, believe in God, believe also in Me.” Jesus wants to comfort them at this time. Wonderful things are going to happen, but before those things happen there is going to be the awfulness of the crucifixion, and the disciples don’t know what to do about that, and they are just now learning certain things even in this last night with Jesus. He does say to them in John 14:2-4, “In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. And you know the way where I am going.” Part of the comfort that Jesus is giving them is that He is going to go away, but He is going to prepare a place for them so that they would have a place in the “Father’s house,” together with the Father, with Christ, and Jesus says I am going to prepare such a place for you. Then I am going to come back for you and take you to be with myself. What a wonderful comfort that should be. He says, “you know the way that I am going.” Thomas, I think, probably spoke for all of them when he said in John 14:5, “Thomas said to Him, ‘Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?’” I think that is a good statement. Jesus is kind of hitting them blind here. He is going to go away, prepare a place for them, come again, and take them to Himself and all of that is great, but Thomas is kind of out there in left field here saying what are we to do with this? We don’t even know where you are going how could we possibly know the way? . . .
