Verse Lens · Context pointer
John 14:25 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 25. 25These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
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Role in This Section
This verse opens The Spirit Teaches and Jesus Gives His Peace by recording the wording that supplies evidence that the next response must face: “These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you”.
Read It With
- John 14:25-31
Read John 14:25 with 14:25-31. This verse opens The Spirit Teaches and Jesus Gives His Peace by recording the wording that supplies evidence that the next response must face: “These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you”. The controlling movement is: Jesus promises that the Paraclete will teach and remind the disciples, gives peace unlike the world's, speaks again of departure and return, says the Father is greater, and goes to meet the ruler of the world in obedient love.
Why It Needs Context
This verse opens The Spirit Teaches and Jesus Gives His Peace by recording the wording that supplies evidence that the next response must face: “These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you”. Read as the opening turn in The Spirit Teaches and Jesus Gives His Peace, its subject, reply, connective, or narrated force depends on John 14:25-31: Jesus promises that the Paraclete will teach and remind the disciples, gives peace unlike the world's, speaks again of departure and return, says the Father is greater, and goes to meet the ruler of the world in obedient love.
Continue in Context
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Read John 14:25-31 — The Spirit Teaches and Jesus Gives His PeaceSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and coverage.
Exact location: John 14:25-31, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording, sentence relations, and critical-text reading checked independently of the KJV.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/John.txt, 14:25-31
Open the John Greek text file ↗Translation and textual notes
NET Bible — John with translators' and textual notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2005–2026 online edition
Supports: Verse-level syntax, older-English clarification, material variants, background, and alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible John PDF, John 14:25-31 and attached translator, study, and textual notes
Open the official NET John PDF ↗