Commentary Critical and Explanatory
John 16:31
Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?
Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? - `It is well ye do, because that faith is soon to be tested, and in a way ye little expect.'
Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?
Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? - `It is well ye do, because that faith is soon to be tested, and in a way ye little expect.'
Verse John 16:31. _DO YE NOW BELIEVE?_] And will ye continue to believe? Ye are now fully convinced; and will ye in the hour of trial retain your conviction, and prove faithful and steady?...
DO YE NOW BELIEVE? - Do you truly and really believe? This question was evidently asked to put them on a full examination of their hearts. Though they supposed that they had unshaken faith - faith tha...
CHAPTER 16 1. Persecutions Predicted. (John 16:1 .) 2. The Comforter and His Demonstration. (John 16:7 .) 3. Sorrow and joy. (John 16:16 .) 4. The Father Himself Loveth You. ...
JOHN 16. There is no break between chs. 15 and 16. Jesus has told them beforehand, so that His death and their suffering may not daunt their faith, as the Baptist was offended by the course of the min...
BEHOLD, THE HOUR COMETH, YEA, IS NOW COME. The answer of the Lord shows that he recognized the incompleteness of the faith of his disciples. The words, "Do ye now believe?" question the power of the f...
His disciples said: "See! now you are speaking clearly, and you are not speaking in hard sayings. Now we know that you know all things, and that you do not need that anyone should ask you anything. Be...
WARNING AND CHALLENGE (John 16:1-4)...
BELIEVE. App-150....
_Do ye now believe?_ The words are only half a question (comp. John 20:29). The belief of which they are conscious is no illusion, but it is not yet as perfect as they in their momentary enthusiasm su...
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION OF THESE DISCOURSES...
ἌΡΤΙ ΠΙΣΤΕΎΕΤΕ; The words are only half a question: comp. John 1:51; John 20:29. The belief of which they are conscious is no illusion, but it is far more defective than they in their momentary enthus...
Ver 29. His disciples said to him, Lo, now you speak plainly, and speak no proverb. 30. Now are we sure that you know all things, and need not that any man should ask you; by this we believe that you...
ΆΠΕΚΡΊΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΆΠΟΚΡΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G611) отвечать....
DISCOURSE: 1706 AN INQUIRY INTO THE REALITY AND DEGREE OF OUR FAITH John 16:31. _Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?_ THE meekness and gentleness of Christ were manifested on all occasions. Even...
HIS VEILED SAYINGS WILL SOON BE MADE PLAIN _Text: John 16:25-33_ 25 These things have I spoken unto you in dark sayings: the hour cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in dark sayings, but sh...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 16:23-33 The following is an Analysis of the dosing section of John 16:— In the closing verses of John 16 the Lord Jesus proceeds to set forth even more fully t...
12 The words of our Lord preserved for us in the four accounts of His life come very far from giving us all that He had to say. They were sadly limited by the incapacity of His hearers. Even His close...
Last Words. Temporary defeat in the present will be followed by final victory. 25. In proverbs] RM 'in parables.' Very many of our Lord's discourses were dark and enigmatical to the Apostles, until th...
THE RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION OF CHRIST WILL PROVE THE DISCIPLES' COMFORT IN TIME OF PERSECUTION 1-6. The Persecution of the Apostles predicted. This section repeats many of the ideas of the previous...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 16 JESUS CONTINUES TO TEACH ABOUT THE *HOLY SPIRIT 16:1-15 V1 ‘I have told all this to you so that these troubles will...
JESUS ANSWERED THEM, DO YE NOW BELIEVE. — Comp. Note on John 1:50. Here, as there, the words do not necessarily ask a question; and, although many expositors prefer to take them interrogatively, a sen...
XV. _ LAST WORDS._ "A little while, and ye behold Me no more; and again a little while, and ye shall see Me. Some of His disciples therefore said one to another, What is this that He saith unto us, A...
To this enthusiastic confession Jesus makes the sobering and pathetic reply: Ἄρτι πιστεύετε; Do ye now believe that I am God's Representative? Is this your present attitude? ἰδοὺ, ἔρχεται ὥρα καὶ νῦν...
_Last words_....
GOOD CHEER FOR HOURS OF TRIAL John 16:25-33 God still speaks to us in proverbs. We could not understand or receive the perfect discovery of Himself. These are but part of His ways, Job 26:14. But in...
Throughout these discourses our Lord was preparing His disciples for all that He saw coming to them. He told them that they would have sorrow resulting from their suffering. Because of this, it was ne...
CHAPTER 23 THE VALEDICTORY SERMON John 14-16. Now that the Passover meal has been enjoyed, and that celebrated Mosaic institution totally eclipsed by bloody Calvary, normally verified and abolished f...
III. THE LAST FAREWELL: 16:16-33. From these distant prospects which He has just opened to the disciples with respect to their future work (John 15:1 to John 16:15), Jesus returns to the great matter...
1. That the time referred to in John 16:25 ff. is the same with that described in John 16:20-24 is indicated by the fact that the same great characteristic of the period mentioned is here set forth as...
“ _Jesus answered them: Now you believe._ 32. _Behold, the hour is coming, and is now come, when you shall be scattered every one to his own home, and when you shall leave me alone; but I am not alone...
His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb (30) Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe...
In John 15:1-27 our Lord substitutes Himself for Israel, as the plant of God, responsible to bear fruit for Him on earth (not merely for man, as such, openly sinful and lost). He takes the place of th...
31._Do you now believe? _As the disciples were too highly pleased with themselves, Christ reminds them that, remembering their weakness, they ought rather to confine themselves within their own little...
In chapter 16 a further step is taken in the revelation of this grace. The Holy Ghost is looked upon as already here below. In this chapter the Lord declares that He has set forth all His instruction...
JESUS ANSWERED THEM, DO YE NOW BELIEVE?] Not as calling their faith in question; or as denying they had any; or as despising it for the smallness of it; but as reproving them for their security, vain...
Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? Ver. 31. _Do ye now believe?_] I know, ere trouble comes, you are jolly fellows. But it is easy to swim in a warm bath: and every bird can sing in a sunshine d...
_His disciples_ Struck with the correspondence of what he said to what was secretly passing in their own minds; _said, Lo, now speakest thou plainly_ We acknowledge that now thou speakest in such a ma...
Disciples of Christ may at some times possess and manifest strong confidence in him, and at others act as if they had none: were it not for his grace, all would utterly forsake him and perish....
The close of the discourse:...
JESUS ANSWERED THEM: DO YE NOW BELIEVE?...
All that the Lord spoke on that memorable night was intended for the preparation of His disciples for what would face them in view of His death, resurrection and return to the glory. There would be st...
28-33 Here is a plain declaration of Christ's coming from the Father, and his return to him. The Redeemer, in his entrance, was God manifest in the flesh, and in his departure was received up into gl...
Some read the words, (not as a question), You do now believe. It is well you believe at last, you had reason enough to have believed before this time....
John 16:31 Jesus G2424 answered G611 (G5662) them G846 Do G4100 now G737 believe G4100 (G5719) Do -...
‘Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? behold the hour is coming, yes it is here, that you will be scattered every man to his own and will leave me alone. And yet I am not alone because the Father...
WARNING AND ASSURANCE FOR THE FUTURE (JOHN 16:16). As the time for them to go to Gethsemane approaches Jesus now begins to prepare them for what is to happen there. They are to recognise that what is...
John 16:31-32. JESUS ANSWERED THEM, DO YE NOW BELIEVE? BEHOLD, AN HOUR COMETH AND IS COME, THAT YE SHOULD BE SCATTERED, EACH ONE TO HIS OWN, AND LEAVE ME ALONE; AND YET I AM NOT ALONE, BECAUSE THE FAT...
We have already considered the circumstances under which the two Chapter s upon which we now enter were spoken; and, if we have been correct in the view taken of them, we are not to imagine that the f...
DO YE NOW BELIEVE? (αρτ πιστευετε;). For αρτ (just now) see John 9:19; John 13:33; John 13:37. Their belief in Christ was genuine _as far as it went_, but perils await them of which they are ignoran...
John 16:31 The Work of the Comforter I. Many, perhaps, cannot understand how the condition of Christians now is better than that of the disciples when our Lord was upon earth; how the Comforter, whom...
John 16:26 Love the Evidence of Faith I. Our Lord here speaks of His disciples' belief in Him as one of the reasons why the Father loved them. But He puts it second. He puts their belief after their...
Our Lord is speaking to his disciples before his departure from them to be crucified, and he says: John 16:16. _A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me...
John 16:1. _These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended._ That you should not be scandalized when you are put to suffering on any account that you should not dread the offence...
John 16:1. _These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended._ The temptation is, when Christ is despised and rejected, for our hearts to begin to sink, and for our faith to fail....
John 16:16. _A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father._ Remember that the disciples were on the verge of great trouble. Thei...
CONTENTS: Warning of persecutions. The promise of the Spirit and His three-fold work. Jesus talks of His death, resurrection and second coming. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, God, disciples. CONCLUS...
John 16:1. _These things have I spoken, that ye should not be offended,_ so as to stumble and shrink back from the cause in which you are engaged. Expulsion from the synagogue was to a jew next to dea...
DO YOU BELIEVE NOW? They thought they did, but the next day they would be scattered, and Jesus would stand alone....
_Do ye now believe?_ LOVE’S FAREWELL I. A KIND INQUIRY (John 16:31). A question. 1. Authoritative. Put by Him who alone has a right to do so. 2. Necessary. The existence of faith (John 9:35; Mark 4...
_Now speakest Then plainly_ THE DISCIPLES’ CONFESSION AND THE MASTER’S WARNING The first words of these discourses were, “Let not your heart be troubled. ” The aim of all was to bring peace and conf...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 16:25. PROVERBS, or parables.—Such as the vine, the woman in travail, etc. THE TIME COMETH, ETC.—The Spirit after Pentecost would guide them clearly into all tru...
EXPOSITION JOHN 16:1 (c) _The bitter issues of the hostility of the world_. JOHN 16:1 THESE THINGS. What things? Primarily the explanation he had given of the opposition and hatred of the world, a...
Shall we turn to John's gospel, chapter 16. Now, these words in the sixteenth chapter have to be understood with the background as Jesus has been in the upper room with His disciples. He has told them...
2 Timothy 4:16; 2 Timothy 4:17; Acts 8:1; Isaiah 50:6; John 12:23;...
Now [α ρ τ ι]. See on 13 33. With reference to the coming time of greater trial....
In the foregoing verse, the apostles made. full profession of their faith in Christ's divinity, and in Christ's omnipotency: NOW ARE WE SURE THAT THOU KNOWEST ALL THINGS, AND THAT THOU CAMEST FORTH FR...