John 14:23 Commentary and Bible Study

Christ answers Judas with what is a lesson in love. Those two verses really stand over everything that follows. You could say they dominate everything that follows to the end of the chapter. The whole passage is about love, about love to Christ. There are implicit in these verses a number of expressions here of love, expressions about love for Christ, and these are vital for us.The Lord immediately points out that his words will continue to come, but not from his own lips because his presence with them, his time with them has come to an end, and now, he is going to suffer, to die, to rise again from the dead, to ascend into heaven, and to resume his position at the right hand of God the Father, as the second glorious reigning person of the Trinity, equal with the Father, equal with the Spirit. He will no longer be on earth to instruct them personally, but more is going to come from him through the Holy Spirit.