June 27th, 2026

This Sunday’s title is the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost. And the pattern continues. With the Gospel Reading, this year being the “A Series”, we are currently going through the Gospel according to Matthew, and the reading is Matthew 10:34-42. And Jesus continues the talk to his disciples. And he has some important things to say as his disciples go out to do his work. This is, after all, an ETERNAL life and death situation.
With the writings of this website, we have been going through the Gospel according to John, and that account has a much larger perspective than the other three. And we are much farther along in that account, getting closer to Jesus’ arrest in Gethsemane. We are taking a little bit of that account at a time, in the order in which it has been laid out, and we are not skipping any parts.

It should be mentioned that we are going through that Gospel account with a unique translation called an EXTREMELY literal translation. If you are familiar with this style of translation, then you may skip the next two paragraphs.

The first significant thing to mention regarding the description of this type of translation is that the chapter and verse numbers will not be included within the text itself. Both numbers were added quite later after the text was written, and they are certainly useful when someone is searching for a particular text, but the structure they imply is not always helpful. This pair of numerical designations tend to focus the reader on the very beginning of the text, where the writer started, and that is usually not be the most important thing that the writer wants to get across to the reader. The writers basically wanted the readers to focus on God and not on themselves. The words are much more important than the numbers, and often those words lead the reader near the middle and/or the end of the text in some way, to give to the reader some structure to all the words being read. (Those two places are often important, and they can remind the reader of the layout of the tabernacle/temple; near the middle was the place of sacrifice, and that allowed one to go farther on to a place of great and wonderful significance.)

It should also be noted that the words with hyphens occur when more than one English word is used to describe a single word of the ancient Greek. And some of the words chosen below are meant to point out the close connection that often occurs between the English and Greek languages. (This can help to make the Greek language a bit easier to learn.) It is also important to mention that the order of the words below is also the same order that is in the ancient Greek. This may help to show the important words, especially when another word besides the verb is first in the sentence or phrase. Sometimes this emphasis will be shown with a “(!)”. The exception to this translation order is that there are just a small number of words (like “therefore”, “now”) that are usually second in a sentence that are meant to be first when translated. And although it should be obvious, it should be said that repetition of words should be noted as another type of emphasis. One more thing to mention is that the verbs in capital letters are called HISTORICAL PRESENTS.  An historical present is when a verb in a past tense is expected, but a verb in the present tense is given. More detail regarding the historical present has been explained elsewhere in these writings, and it may be helpful to read some of the other writings of this website. With all of the above things to consider, it will probably be helpful to have another translation or a study bible nearby as you read the text below.

Before the text is given, it would be good to mention that this is one of the few places where Jesus is talking at the beginning of a chapter, and “Jesus said” will not be at the beginning of the text. This also happened back at the start of chapter ten. And it will happen again at the start of both chapter fifteen and sixteen. Jesus is doing a lot of talking as he approaches the crucifixion. If you have a study bible that has the words of Jesus in red, you will notice that Jesus is essentially talking until the start of chapter eighteen. To talk for four chapters is significant. And the plan is to discuss that at another time.

What follows is an EXTREMELY literal translation of what is the first part of the what has been called the fourteenth chapter of the Gospel according to John (14:1-14); and as was mentioned above, Jesus is talking here:

“Do-not  let-be-troubled  of-you,  the  cardiac;  believe  into  the  God,  and  into  me  believe.  In  the  house(!)  of-the  Father  of-me,  abodes,  many,  there-are;  now  if  not,  I-would-have-said  ever  to-you,  that  I-am-traveling  to-prepare  a-place  for-you;  and  if  I-travel  and  I-prepare  a-place  for-you,  again  I-am-coming,  and  I-will-take-along  you  toward  myself,  in-order-that,  where  I-am,  I,  also  you,  you-may-be.  And  where  I,  I-am-going-away,  you  fully-know  the  way.

HE-SAYS  to-him,  Thomas,  “Lord,  not  we-fully-know  where  you-are-going-away;  how  are-we-able  the  way  to-fully-know?”

HE-SAYS  to-him,  the  Jesus,  “I,  I-am  the  way  and  the  truth  and  the  life;  no-one  comes  toward  the  Father,  if  not  through  me.  If  you-had-known  me,  also  the  Father  of-me  you-will-know;  and  from  presently  you-know  him,  and  you-have-seen  him.”

HE-SAYS  to-him,  Philip,  “Lord,  show  to-us  the  Father,  and  it-suffices  for-us.”

HE-SAYS  to-him,  the  Jesus,  “So-much  chrono  with  you  I-am,  and   not  you-have-known  me,  Philip?  The-one  having-seen  me,  he-has-seen  the  Father;  how  you,  you-say,  ‘Show  to-us  the  Father’?  Not  do-you-believe  that  I,  in  the  Father,  and  the  Father  in  me  he-is?  The  messages  which  I,  I-am-saying  to-you  from  myself,  not  I-do-speak;  now  the  Father  in  me  remaining,  he-does  the  ergon  of-him.  Believe  me  that  I  in  the  Father  and  the  Father  in  me;  now  if  not,  on-account-of  the  ergons  themselves,  believe.  Amen,  amen,  I-am-saying  to-you,  the-one  believing  into  me,  the  ergons  which  I,  I-am-doing,  that-one-also  will-do,  and  greater-than  these  he-will-do,  because  I,  toward  the  Father,  I-am-traveling;  and  the  what  ever  you-ask  in  the  name  of-me,  this  I-will-do,  in-order-that  he-may-be-glorified,  the  Father  in  the  Son.  If  anything(!)  you-ask  me  in  the  name  of-me,  I,  I-will-do.”