John 14:27
Given hours before everything fell apart.
Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
What’s happening here
This is the upper room, the last evening. Jesus has washed feet, predicted a betrayal and a denial, and told the disciples he is leaving. They are frightened and confused. Into that he says: peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you, not as the world gives. The world’s peace is the absence of trouble; his is something that holds while trouble is happening, and he says so knowing what the next day holds for him and for them. “Don’t let your heart be troubled” is a command he gives to people whose hearts have every reason to be.
How it gets misread
Treated as a promise that things will calm down. The disciples’ circumstances got worse, not better, within hours.
How to use it
For someone in the middle of something, not after it. It pairs well with Philippians 4:6–7, which describes the same peace as a guard.
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