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[a]And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be.(A)

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  1. 14:3 Come back again: a rare Johannine reference to the parousia; cf. 1 Jn 2:28.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back(A) and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.(B)

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17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together[a] with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Thus we shall always be with the Lord.

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  1. 4:17 Will be caught up together: literally, snatched up, carried off; cf. 2 Cor 12:2; Rev 12:5. From the Latin verb here used, rapiemur, has come the idea of “the rapture,” when believers will be transported away from the woes of the world; this construction combines this verse with Mt 24:40–41 (see note there) // Lk 17:34–35 and passages from Revelation in a scheme of millennial dispensationalism.

17 After that, we who are still alive and are left(A) will be caught up together with them in the clouds(B) to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord(C) forever.

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