"Peace be with you! MY peace I give to you; not as the world gives peace do I give it to you. Do not be troubled! Do not be afraid! You heard ME say, 'I AM going away, but I AM coming to you.' If you loved ME, you would be glad that I go to the FATHER, for the FATHER is greater than I.
I have told you this now before it takes place, so that when it does happen you may believe. There is very little left for ME to tell you, for the prince of this world is at hand, although there is nothing in ME that HE can claim. But see, the world must know that I love the FATHER, and that I do what the FATHER has taught ME to do. Come now, let us go." - John 14:27-31
(For the FATHER is greater than I. This does not contradict what John teaches throughout the whole Gospel about JESUS' divinity. This is to be read together with 5:18; 10:30; 16:15, if we want to know something of the mystery of CHRIST, "true GOD," as spoken of in Romans 9:5; Titus 2:13; and 1 John 5:20.
As early as the fourth century Saint Hilary, the great bishop and defender of the faith, wrote: "The FATHER is greater because of being the one who gives. As HE gives the Son all that HE HIMSELF is, yet the Son is not inferior to the FATHER."
Moreover, it is characteristic of the Son to deny HIMSELF so that HE may give glory to the FATHER, until the FATHER gives HIM back "the glory HE had before" as said in 17:5 and 6:62. Because of this the apostles, who have seen HIM as a man among humans in the time of HIS humiliation, should now rejoice.)
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