John 14:31 - Exposition

But that — ἀλλ ἵνα is elliptical (Westcott translates, "But I surrender myself, that," etc.; and Meyer, "But he cometh, that," etc.), not dependent on ἐγείρεσθε — the world may know —that very world over which this alien spirit has so long tyrannized may know, if not now, yet ultimately— that I love the Father . Then it is the world which is to be nevertheless drawn to him by his being "lifted up "( John 12:1-50 :52)—the world which the Father loves so much as to save and redeem from the power of the enemy. And even as the Father commanded me —which is undoubtedly in harmony with the entire representation of the μειζονότης of the Father—so I do. My love is strong as death. Though the prince of the world has no right over me, I go at the Father's bidding to do his will, to suffer, but to win, and through death to destroy him that has the power of death. Arise, let us go hence —words which are also found in Matthew 26:46 , and are a touch of the eyewitness that nothing will obliterate. A second-century theologian would not have introduced such a feature.

They leave the guest-chamber, and so the remainder of the discourse was delivered in the brightness of the Paschal moon, under shadow of the walls of Jerusalem, or in some corner of the temple area, or some convenient place on the way to Gethsemane. He said these words, however, before he crossed the Kedron ( John 18:1 ). Apparently on the way thither he once more took up his parable.