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NASB | John 14:3 "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 14:3 "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and I will take you to Myself, so that where I am you may be also. |
Subject: "The bride is always ready" |
Bible Note: Ancient Israel had some customs and practices that would not be allowed in our culture today. One such custom was the engagement process. A young man in his 20s would go with his father to the village where the girl whom he was to marry lived with her parents. While there, the young man and his father would meet the girl, about 14 yrs.old, and her father for the first time. A Jewish matchmaker called a (shadkhan) would put the young man and woman together based on yihus (stock, family background, reputation in the community and personal virtue). Jewish marriages placed an emphasis on love after marriage, as opposed to marring the one you loved. When the young man arrived at the young woman's house, the two fathers would settle on a "bride-price." Payment by means of money or material items was a way of honoring the family that would be loosing the daughter. When the price was settled, the young man's father would pass his son a cup of wine. The young man would drink from the cup then pass the cup to the young woman, signifying that he wanted her to be his wife and that he was giving his life to her. If she drank from the cup, she was in effect saying, "I want to marry you. I accept your life, and I will give you mine." Then the young man and his father would travel back to their village where the young man would begin building a room onto his parent's home. Generations of son's would build on to the house, creating what is called (insula), a house with many rooms. The young man would work on his house until his father, the only person who could give a final approval for the new home, would say "it is ready. Go and receive your bride." While the young man worked on the new house, the bride-to-be would make wedding clothes and learn to take care of a home. She was expected to always be ready for his return at any moment. During this time of preparation, all of the people in the young woman's village would refer to her as "one who has been brought with a price." Eventually the house would be ready, the young man's father would give his approval and send his son to receive his bride. When the bridegroom would enter the village of the bride-to-be, he would blow a shofar and all the people of the village upon hearing the horn would know the bridegroom had arrived. A wise bride would be ready when her bridegroom arrived. Therefore those who have been preparing, and making themselves ready for the groom will join him when he returns, sending his angles to sound the trumpet. John 14:1-3 "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." ---(Jonathan Gainey) |
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