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John 14:18

NETBible	“I will not abandon¹ you as orphans,² I will come to you.³
NIV © biblegateway Joh 14:18	I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
NASB © biblegateway Joh 14:18	"I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
NLT © biblegateway Joh 14:18	No, I will not abandon you as orphans––I will come to you.
MSG © biblegateway Joh 14:18	"I will not leave you orphaned. I'm coming back.
BBE © SABDAweb Joh 14:18	I will not let you be without a friend: I am coming to you.
NRSV © bibleoremus Joh 14:18	"I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you.
NKJV © biblegateway Joh 14:18	"I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
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KJV	I will <863> (0) not <3756> leave <863> (5692) you <5209> comfortless <3737>_: I will come <2064> (5736) to <4314> you <5209>_. {comfortless: or, orphans}
NASB © biblegateway Joh 14:18	"I will not leave <863> you as orphans <3737> ; I will come <2064> to you.
NET [draft] ITL	“I will <863> not <3756> abandon <863> you <5209> as orphans <3737> , I will come <2064> to <4314> you <5209> .
GREEK	ouk <3756> PRT-N afhsw <863> (5692) V-FAI-1S umav <5209> P-2AP orfanouv <3737> A-APM ercomai <2064> (5736) V-PNI-1S prov <4314> PREP umav <5209> P-2AP

NETBible

“I will not abandon¹ you as orphans,² I will come to you.³

NET Notes

¹tn Or “leave.”

²tn The entire phrase “abandon you as orphans” could be understood as an idiom meaning, “leave you helpless.”

³sn I will come to you. Jesus had spoken in 14:3 of going away and coming again to his disciples. There the reference was both to the parousia (the second coming of Christ) and to the postresurrection appearances of Jesus to the disciples. Here the postresurrection appearances are primarily in view, since Jesus speaks of the disciples “seeing” him after the world can “see” him no longer in the following verse. But many commentators have taken v. 18 as a reference to the coming of the Spirit, since this has been the topic of the preceding verses. Still, vv. 19-20 appear to contain references to Jesus’ appearances to the disciples after his resurrection. It may well be that another Johannine double meaning is found here, so that Jesus ‘returns’ to his disciples in one sense in his appearances to them after his resurrection, but in another sense he ‘returns’ in the person of the Holy Spirit to indwell them.