Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 16:3
They have not known the Father nor me — This is the true root of persecution in all its forms.
They have not known the Father nor me — This is the true root of persecution in all its forms.
Verse John 16:3. _BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN THE FATHER_] John 15:25, John 15:25. _Ignorance_ of the _benevolence_ of GOD, and of the _philanthropy_ of CHRIST, is the grand fountain whence all rel...
See John 15:21....
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...
THESE THINGS THEY WILL DO... BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN THE FATHER OR ME. This ignorance of God and Christ lies at the root of all spirit of persecution. Could the tender love of God as revealed in t...
"I have spoken these things to you in case you should be caused to stumble in the way. They will excommunicate you from the synagogue. Yes, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that h...
WARNING AND CHALLENGE (John 16:1-4)...
UNTO YOU. All the texts omit. HAVE NOT KNOWN. knew not (Aor.), NOT. Greek. _ou._ App-105. KNOWN. App-132. THE FATHER. See p. 1511. NOR. Greek. _oude_....
_unto you_ These words are of doubtful authority. _they have not known_ Better, _they_ DID NOT RECOGNISE. The verb implies that they had the opportunity of knowing; but they had failed to see that Go...
3. After ΠΟΙΉΣΟΥΣΙΝ omit ὑμῖν (inserted from John 16:1; John 16:4). 3. ΟΥ̓Κ ἜΓΝΩΣΑΝ. DID NOT RECOGNISE, implying that they had the opportunity of knowing. They failed to see that God is Love, and that...
THE WORLD AND THE PARACLETE...
VER 1. THESE THINGS HAVE I SPOKEN TO YOU, THAT YOU SHOULD NOT BE OFFENDED. 2. THEY SHALL PUT YOU OUT OF THE SYNAGOGUES; YEA, THE TIME COMES, THAT WHOSOEVER KILLS YOU WILL THINK THAT HE DOES GOD SERVIC...
ΠΟΙΉΣΟΥΣΙΝ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ, _см._ John 16:2. Футуристический _praes._ изображает определенное будущее событие как уже происходящее, ΈΓΝΩΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать....
AND THESE THINGS WILL THEY DO, &C.— "And these immoral and pernicious principles and practices will they embrace and execute against you as my disciples, because through the wilful blindness and hardn...
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...
And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. AND THESE THINGS WILL THEY DO UNTO YOU, BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN THE FATHER, NOR ME. See the note at , of wh...
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 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...
BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN THE FATHER, NOR ME. — Comp. Note on John 15:21. He repeats that ignorance of God is the cause of the world’s hatred and persecution, and adds here that it is ignorance of G...
XIV. _ THE SPIRIT CHRIST'S WITNESS._ "If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated Me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the...
to John 16:11. _The conquest of the world by the Spirit_....
This fanatical blindness is traced to its source, as in John 15:21, to their ignorance of God and of Christ: καὶ ταῦτα … ἐμέ. And He forewarns them that they might not be taken unawares....
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...
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...
“ _I have spoken these things to you, that you may not be offended._ 2. _They shall put you out of their synagogues; yea, the hour is coming that whoever kills you will think that he is doing service...
These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. (2) They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service...
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...
3._And they will do these things. _Not without good reason does Christ frequently remind the apostles of this consideration, that there is only one reason why unbelievers are so greatly enraged agains...
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...
AND THESE THINGS WILL THEY DO UNTO YOU,.... Christ here opens the true spring and source of the furious zeal of the Jews, against the apostles, in putting them out of their synagogues, and taking away...
And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. Ver. 3. _Because they have not known_] Through blind zeal. "The dark corners of the earth are full of cruelty,...
_And these things will they do_ These cruelties will they exercise upon you, not because ye have done them any harm; but _because they have not known the Father nor me_ Which, if they had done, instea...
AND THESE THINGS WILL THEY DO UNTO YOU BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN THE FATHER NOR ME....
COMFORT AGAINST THE WORLD'S HATRED. The intensity of the world's hatred:...
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...
1-6 Our Lord Jesus, by giving his disciples notice of trouble, designed that the terror might not be a surprise to them. It is possible for those who are real enemies to God's service, to pretend zea...
This is but what our Lord said as to his Father, 1 THESSALONIANS 16:21 of the former chapter, (SEE POOLE ON "1 THESSALONIANS 16:21"), and teacheth us, that all persecutions of good men speak in persec...
John 16:3 And G2532 things G5023 do G4160 (G5692) you G5213 because G3754 have G1097 not G3756 known...
WARNINGS OF COMING PERSECUTION (JOHN 16:1). These verses continue the theme of John 15:20. There He had spoken of coming persecution so that when it came they would not be caused to stumble, but woul...
“These things have I spoken to you that you should not be made to stumble. They will put you out of synagogues. Yes, the hour comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God. And...
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...
John 16:3. AND THESE THINGS WILL THEY DO, BECAUSE THEY KNOW NOT THE FATHER, NOR ME. The root of the opposition as formerly spoken of, chap. John 15:21....
BECAUSE (οτ). Definite reason for the religious hatred is ignorance of God and Christ as in John 15:21....
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._ 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._ «That you should not be scandalized when you see me put to death, and when you miss my bodily presence from your mids...
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._ Or, «made to stumble.» Christ would not have you who are his people caused to stumble by anything that happens to you...
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...
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 THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN. Fanatics believe it is God's will to kill "heretics." If they had _known_ [and loved] the Father and the Son, they could not act that way!...
_These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended_ CHRIST’S REASONS FOR PRESENT SPEECH AND FORMER SILENCE I. OUR LORD’S LOVING REASON FOR HIS SPEECH. 1. The two statements of Joh_...
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._...
_And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father nor Me._ He says this not to excuse the persecutors, but rather to comfort the Apostles. "The reason why Jews and Gentil...
_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...
2 Peter 1:14; Acts 20:23; Acts 20:24; Acts 9:16; Isaiah 41:22;...
Unto you. Omit....
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...