Mone in John 14:2: What is it?
Let
not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my
Father's house are many mansions [mone]:
if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And
if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto
myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. John 14:1-3 KJV
Jesus
had told his followers he was going away and Peter wanted to know where. So
Jesus began to tell them but also said not to worry about it. He told them his
father’s house was big enough to accommodate all of them.
The
word translated “mansions” in the King James Version is usually translated as “rooms,”
or “abiding places” or “dwelling places” in more modern versions. Verse 23 uses
the same Greek word (mone) when Jesus
says, “Whoever loves me will keep my word. My Father will love them, and we
will come to them and make our home [mone]
with them.” Common English Version Those
are the only places mone is used in
the New Testament.
N.T.
Wright has said, “The ‘dwelling-places’ of this passage are … best understood
as safe places where those who have died may lodge and rest, like pilgrims in
the Temple, not so much in the course of an onward pilgrimage within the life
of a disembodied ‘heaven’, but while awaiting the resurrection which is still
to come.”[1]
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