John 14:2 — ExegesisTAB

The verse opens with a locative frame, en tē oikia tou patros mou {ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ τοῦ πατρός μου | en tē oikíā tou patrós mou} ‘in the house of My Father,’ which places the whole saying inside the Father’s domain and stresses possession through the genitive. The fronted subject monai pollai {μοναὶ πολλαί | monaí pollaí} ‘many dwelling places’ comes before eisin {εἰσιν | eisin} ‘are,’ giving prominence to abundance before the verb completes the thought. The conditional sequence ei de mē eipon an hymin {εἰ δὲ μή εἶπον ἂν ὑμῖν | ei de mē eipon an hymin} is counterfactual in force: an {ἂν | án} marks the apodosis as contrary to fact, so English communicates the force best as a rhetorical question rather than a flat statement. The clause hoti poreuomai hetoimasai topon hymin {ὅτι πορεύομαι ἑτοιμάσαι τόπον ὑμῖν | hóti poreúomai hetoimásai tópon hymin} is best read as the content of what Jesus would have told them, not as a causal explanation; syntactically, poreuomai {πορεύομαι | poreúomai} ‘I am going’ is oriented toward the purpose infinitive hetoimasai {ἑτοιμάσαι | hetoimásai} ‘to prepare,’ so the movement itself carries forward-looking intent. The translation therefore preserves the reassurance, the abundance, and the purpose-driven motion without adding a causal “because” that the Greek does not require.