Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 16:10
Of righteousness, because I go to my Father — Which the Spirit will testify, though ye do not then see me. But I could not go to him if I were not righteous.
Of righteousness, because I go to my Father — Which the Spirit will testify, though ye do not then see me. But I could not go to him if I were not righteous.
Verse John 16:10. _OF RIGHTEOUSNESS_] Of my _innocence_ and _holiness_, because I go away to my Father; of which my resurrection from the dead, and my ascension to heaven, shall be complete proofs. C...
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS - This seems clearly to refer to the righteousness or innocence of Jesus himself. He was now persecuted. He was soon to be arraigned on heavy charges, and condemned by the highest aut...
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...
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE. GO TO MY FATHER. Human tribunals convicted him of blasphemy because he said he was the Son of God, and put him to death. God exalted him to. throne, thereby showing that the...
WARNING AND CHALLENGE (John 16:1-4)...
"I did not tell you these things at the beginning, because I was with you. But now I am going away to him who sent me, and none of you asks me: 'Where are you going?' But grief has filled your hearts...
MY FATHER. See on John 14:2. SEE. behold. App-133. NO MORE. Greek. _ouketi._...
_righteousness_ The word occurs here only in this Gospel; but comp. 1Jn 2:29; 1 John 3:7; 1 John 3:10; Revelation 19:11. Righteousness is the keeping of the law, and is the natural result of faith; so...
THE WORLD AND THE PARACLETE...
ΔΙΚΑΙΟΣΎΝΗΣ. The word occurs here only in this Gospel; but comp. 1 John 2:29; 1 John 3:7; 1 John 3:10; Revelation 19:11. Righteousness is the keeping
Ver 5. But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asks me, Where do you go? 6. But because I have said these things to you sorrow has filled your heart. 7. Nevertheless I tell you the tr...
ΟΎΚΈΤΙ (G3765) больше не. ΘΕΩΡΕΊΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΘΕΩΡΈΩ (G2334) видеть. Футуристический _praes._ описывает будущее событие, которое весьма вероятно: "они, несомненно, не увидят Меня"....
DISCOURSE: 1702 OFFICES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT John 16:8. _And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because they believe not on me; of righteo...
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE, &C.— "He shall likewise convince them of the righteousness of my person and cause, and of the necessity, suitableness, and perfection of that atonement, which I am come to a...
TEACHING WHICH IS DARK AND FOREBODING _Text: John 16:1-11_ 1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be caused to stumble. 2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hou...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 16:1-11 The following is an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— The chapter division between John 15 and 16 is scarcely a happy one, though perha...
Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE I GO TO MY FATHER, AND YE SEE, [ theooreite (G2334 ), OR 'BEHOLD'] ME NO MORE. Beyond doubt, it is Chri...
12 As the Lord had explained in His kingdom proclamation, the whole law was included in the one word, love. Love to God and love to man is far more than all the precepts of the law. So, in His final c...
The work of the Comforter in the world and in the Church. 7. It was better for them that Christ's personal presence should be withdrawn, in order that His spiritual presence might be nearer to them 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...
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE I GO TO MY FATHER. — In the conviction of sin, the world is convinced of its own sin by the Spirit’s representation of Christ to it. That representation of Christ brings also...
to John 16:11. _The conquest of the world by the Spirit_....
THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT John 16:1-11 We gain by our losses. It was expedient for the disciples that the Lord should go, because the Spirit's presence was contingent upon His absence. The text needed t...
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...
Of (c) righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; (c) Of Christ himself: for when the world will see that I have poured out the Holy Spirit they will be forced to confess that I...
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...
3. 16:5-15. Jesus now describes _the victory_ which the disciples will gain over the world which has risen up against Him. He first connects with His departure the coming of the divine _agent_ (alread...
“ _And when he shall have come, he will convince the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment;_ 9, _of sin, because they believe not on me;_ 10, _of righteousness, because I go to my Father and...
And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgement; (9) Of sin, because they believe not on me; (10) Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see...
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...
_THE REPROOF OF THE COMFORTER_ ‘And when He is come, He will reprove the world of sin … because they believe not on Me.’ John 16:8 How does the Comforter convict us of sin? It is written, ‘Of sin,...
10._Of righteousness. _We must attend to the succession of steps which Christ lays down. He now says that _the world _must be _convinced of righteousness_; for men will never hunger and thirst for _ri...
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...
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE I GO TO MY FATHER,.... The "righteousness" here spoken of, does, in the first sense of the word, design the personal righteousness of Christ. The Jews had traduced him as a w...
Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Ver. 10. _Of righteousness, because, &c._] What strength is there in that reason? This: Christ took upon him to be our surety, and...
_Of sin, because they believe not on me_ He will convince the world of that aggravated sin of which they are guilty, in that they do not believe in me, to the truth of whose mission he will bear an un...
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS; that he was perfectly righteous; and that his work was accepted of God as a ground for the justification of sinners. This was proved by his resurrection from the dead, and his ascens...
The reproof of the world:...
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE I GO TO MY FATHER, AND YE SEE ME NO MORE;...
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...
7-15 Christ's departure was necessary to the Comforter's coming. Sending the Spirit was to be the fruit of Christ's death, which was his going away. His bodily presence could be only in one place at...
A second thing of which the Spirit is promised to convince the world, is RIGHTEOUSNESS, by which all interpreters agree is meant the righteousness of Christ. Only some would have it to be understood o...
John 16:10 of G4012 G1161 righteousness G1343 because G3754 go G5217 (G5719) to G4314 My G3450 Father...
“And he, when he is come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness and of judgment. Of sin because they believe not on me. Of righteousness because I am going to the Father and y...
THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (JOHN 16:4)....
John 16:9-11. CONCERNING SIN, BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE NOT IN ME: AND CONCERNING RIGHTEOUSNESS, BECAUSE I GO AWAY TO THE FATHER, AND YE NO LONGER BEHOLD ME: AND CONCERNING JUDGMENT, BECAUSE THE PRINCE OF...
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...
AND YE BEHOLD ME NO MORE (κα ουκετ θεωρειτε με). With the bodily eyes and without the Holy Spirit they are unable to behold Jesus with the spiritual vision (John 14:19). Without Christ they lose th...
John 16:8 I. The first point of thought suggested here, is the ground on which the charge is founded "of sin, because they believe not on Me." II. Note the way in which the Comforter, by revealing Ch...
John 16:9 Conviction of Sin by the Cross It is a fixed expectation of Christ Himself, that His mission to the world will have a considerable part of its value in raising a higher moral sense in mank...
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 16:1. _These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God...
John 16:1. _These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended._ Or, «made to stumble.» Christ would not have you who are his people caused to stumble by anything that happens to you...
This chapter contains some of the most precious words that the Lord Jesus uttered before he died upon the cross. John 16:1. _These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended._ Or,...
John 16:1. _These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended._ «That you should not be scandalized when you see me put to death, and when you miss my bodily presence from your mids...
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...
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...
BECAUSE I AM GOING TO THE FATHER. Jesus was convicted of blasphemy and put to death. He is now alive, raised to God's right side, _proved_ to be the Messiah. See Acts 2:22; Acts 2:33....
_Of righteousness, because I go to My Father_ THE WORLD’S FALSE THEORIES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS The world is examined, convicted, convinced, as to its false theories of righteousness. In Christ was the on...
_And when He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment_ THE MISSION OF THE COMFORTER This is the only passage in which the Saviour has expressed the process of...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 16:10 BECAUSE I GO TO THE FATHER. Jesus will no longer be in the world to teach about RIGHTEOUSNESS, but the Holy Spirit will come to continue that function, through instruction of b...
1-33 CHAPTER 16 VER. 1. _These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended._ (1.) Some think that this refers to Matt. xxvi. 31, _All ye shall be offended because of Me this night._...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ Chap. John 15:27. The Spirit does not teach historical facts, but reveals their true meaning. Hence the apostolic testimony and the testimony of the Spirit form but a...
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...
1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Corinthians 6:3; 1 Corinthians 6:4; 1 John 3:8;...
I go [υ π α γ ω]. Withdraw from their sight and earthly fellowship. See on 8 21, and footnote. Ye see [θ ε ω ρ ε ι τ ε]. Rev., behold. See on 1 18....
THE HOLY SPIRIT CHAPTER John 16:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The sixteenth chapter of John contains a part of our Lord's last message before He went out to Gethsemane and on to the Cross. The disciples wer...
THE MINISTRY OF THE SPIRIT John 14:26; _John 16:7_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS Christ came to His own, and His own received Him not. The Holy Spirit came to His own, seeking to bring every possible spiritual...