John Chapter 14 verse 4 Holy Bible
And whither I go, ye know the way.
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And you all have knowledge of where I am going, and of the way to it.
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And ye know where I go, and ye know the way.
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And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
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Where I go, you know, and you know the way."
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and whither I go away ye have known, and the way ye have known.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - Instead of "Whither I go ye know, and the way ye know," R.T. reads, Ye know the way whither I am going. Some valuable manuscripts and versions, also the bulk of the cursives, Cyril and Chrysostom, sustain the T.R.; nor have Hengstenberg or Gorier departed from it. The construction of the amended reading is harsh and awkward, but considering the point-blank contradiction which Thomas gives to the words in Ver. 5, the truncated reading is probably the true one. Great emphasis is laid upon the ἐγώ. They ought to have known, if they did not know, after his telling them so frequently of the way he was taking through suffering, self-sacrifice, and aloneness, by spiritual processes rather than secular triumphs, by giving his life a ransom for many, by laying it down that he might take it again. He assumes, he even assures them, that whithersoever he may be going, and however vague may be his goal their ideas, they at least must comprehend the way by which he intended to reach it. Peter in any case ought to have been clear about it; more than once had he been rebuked for such worldly conceptions as beclouded his surer judgment.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.--The better reading is, And whither I go, ye know the way, i.e., "Ye know that I am the way to the Father, whither I am going." (Comp. John 14:6, and John 13:33.) They did not, indeed, fully know this, but the means of knowing it was within their reach, and His own words had declared it. (Comp., e.g., John 10:1; John 11:25.) They ought to have known it, and His words now are meant to contrast what they ought to have known with what they really did know, in order that He may more fully instruct them. To know our ignorance, is the first step to its removal.
