SEV Biblia, Chapter 14:27
La paz os dejo, mi paz os doy; no como el mundo la da, yo os la doy. No se turbe vuestro corazn, ni tenga miedo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - John 14:27
Verse 27. Peace I leave with you] The Jewish form of salutation and benediction. A wish of peace among them is thus to be understood: May you prosper in body and soul, and enjoy every earthly and heavenly good! For the meaning of this word, see Matt. v. 9. My peace I give unto you] Such tranquillity of soul, such uninterrupted happiness of mind, such everlasting friendship with God as I enjoy, may ye all enjoy! And such blessedness I bequeath unto you: it is my last, my best, my dying legacy.
Not as the world giveth] Not as the Jews, in empty wishes: not as the people of the world, in empty compliments. Their salutations and benedictions are generally matters of custom and polite ceremony, given without desire or design; but I mean what I say; what I wish you, that I will give you. To his followers Jesus gives peace, procures it, preserves it, and establishes it. He is the author, prince, promoter, and keeper of peace.
Neither let it be afraid.] mhde deiliatw, Let not your heart shrink back through fear of any approaching evil. This is the proper meaning of the word. In a few hours ye will be most powerfully assaulted; but stand firm:-the evil will only fall upon me; and this evil will result in your comfort and salvation, and in the redemption of a lost world.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 27. Peace I leave with you , etc.] Christ being about to die and leave his disciples, makes his last will and testament, and as the best legacy he could leave them, bequeaths peace unto them; my peace I give unto you : he left the Gospel of peace with them, to be preached by them to all the world; which is a declaration and publication of peace made by his blood; is a means of reconciling the minds of men to God and Christ, to the truths, ordinances, and people of Christ; of relieving and giving peace to distressed minds; and which shows the way to eternal peace: and as Christ had kept his disciples in peace one with another, so he left them in peace; and left orders with them to maintain it one among another: but what seems chiefly designed here, is peace with God, which Christ is the sole author of; he was appointed in the council and covenant of peace to effect it; he became incarnate with that view, and did procure it by his sufferings and death; and as it was published by angels, when he came into the world, he left it, and gave it to his disciples when he was going out of it: or else that peace of conscience is meant, which follows upon the former, which arises from the sprinklings of the blood of Christ, and from a comfortable view, by faith, of an interest in his justifying righteousness, and is enjoyed in a way of believing, and commonly in the use of ordinances leaving it supposes that Christ was about to leave his disciples, but would not leave them comfortless; he leaves a Comforter with them, and bequeaths peace unto them as his last legacy: giving it, shows that it is not to be acquired by any thing that man can do, but is a pure free grace gift of Christ; and which being given as his legacy, is irrevocable; for the allusion is to the making of a will or testament when persons are about to die: though some have thought it refers to the custom of wishing peace, health, and prosperity, among the Jews; but Christ does not say peace be to you; which was the more usual form of salutation among them, and which was used by them when they met, and not at parting; especially we have no instance of such a form as here used, by dying persons taking their leaves of their relations and friends. It must indeed be owned that the phrase, to give peace, is with them the same as to salute, or wish health and prosperity. Take two or three of their rules as instances of it; whoever knows his friend, that he is used wl wl tyl f604 , to give him peace; he shall prevent him with peace (i.e. salute him first), as it is said, seek peace and pursue it; but if he gives it to him, and he does not return it, he shall be called a robber.
Again, a man may not go into the house of a stranger, on his feast day, wl wl tyl , to give peace unto him (or salute him); if he finds him in the street, he may give it to him with a low voice, and his head hanging down; once more, a man wl ty al , not give peace to, or salute his master, nor return peace to him in the way that they give it to friends, and they return it to one another.
Likewise it must be owned, that when they saluted persons of distinction, such as princes, nobles, and doctors, they repeated the word peace f607 , though never to any strangers; however, certain it is, that it was another sort of peace which Christ left, and gave to his disciples, than what the Jews were wont to give, or wish to one another; not as the world giveth, give I you . The peace Christ gives is true, solid, and substantial; the peace the world, the men, and things of it give, is a false one; and whilst they cry, peace, peace, sudden destruction is at hand: the peace of the world is at best but an external one, but the peace Christ is the giver of, is internal; the peace the world affords is a very transient, unstable, and short lived one, but the peace of Christ is lasting and durable; the peace of the world will not support under the troubles of it, but the peace which Christ gives, cheerfully carries his people through all the difficulties and exercises of this life: and as these differ in kind, so likewise in the manner of giving, and in the persons to whom they are given; the world gives peace in words only, Christ in deed; the world gives feignedly, Christ heartily; the world gives it for its own advantage, Christ for his peoples sake; the world gives its peace to the men of it, to the ungodly, none to the godly, whom it hates; Christ gives his; not to the wicked, for there is no peace to them, but to the saints, the excellent in the earth. Wherefore says Christ, let not your heart be troubled ; at my departure from you, since I leave such a peace with you: neither let it be afraid : at the dangers you may be exposed unto, and the trouble you may be exercised with; for in the midst of them all, in me ye shall have peace, ( John 16:33).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 25-27 - Would we know these things for our good, we must pray for, and depen on the teaching of the Holy Ghost; thus the words of Jesus will be brought to our remembrance, and many difficulties be cleared up whic are not plain to others. To all the saints, the Spirit of grace is given to be a remembrancer, and to him, by faith and prayer, we shoul commit the keeping of what we hear and know. Peace is put for all good and Christ has left us all that is really and truly good, all the promised good; peace of mind from our justification before God. Thi Christ calls his peace, for he is himself our Peace. The peace of God widely differs from that of Pharisees or hypocrites, as is shown by it humbling and holy effects.
Greek Textus Receptus
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Vincent's NT Word Studies
27. Peace. "These are last words, as of one who is about to go away and says 'good-night' or gives his blessing" (Luther). Peace! was the ordinary oriental greeting at parting. Compare xx. 21.My peace I give. Compare 1 John iii. 1. "It is of his own that one gives" (Godet).
Let it be afraid (deiliatw). Only here in the New Testament. Properly it signifies cowardly fear. Rev., fearful. The kindred adjective deilov fearful, is used by Matthew of the disciples in the storm (viii. 26), and in Revelation of those who deny the faith through fear of persecution (xxi. 8). The kindred noun, deilia, occurs only in 2 Tim. i. 7, "God hath not given us the spirit of fear," contrasted with the spirit of power, love, and a sound mind.
