Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 16:4
I did not tell you these things at the beginning, because I was with you — To bear the chief shock in my own person, and to screen you from it.
I did not tell you these things at the beginning, because I was with you — To bear the chief shock in my own person, and to screen you from it.
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Verse John 16:4. _AT THE BEGINNING_] I would not trouble you by speaking of these things pointedly at first, when I chose you to be my disciples, but have referred them to the present time, lest you s...
THESE THINGS - These things which are about to happen, John 16:1. He had foretold them that they would take place. YE MAY REMEMBER ... - By calling to mind that he had foretold these things they would...
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 HAVE. TOLD YOU... THAT YE MAY REMEMBER. When the hour of trial would come there would come also the remembrance that the Lord had foreseen it from the beginning, had promised to be with...
WARNING AND CHALLENGE (John 16:1-4)...
"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...
THE TIME. The texts read "their hour": i.e. the time of the things of verses: John 16:2; John 16:3. SHALL COME. shall have come. AT THE BEGINNING. from the beginning. Greek. _ex arches._ See note on...
_But_ Making a fresh start; _But, to return_(to John 16:1). _have I told_ See on John 16:6. _when the time_ Rather, _when_ THEIR HOUR, according to the better reading; i.e. the hour appointed for the...
THE WORLD AND THE PARACLETE...
ἈΛΛΆ. _But_, to return (to John 16:1), _these things_ HAVE I SPOKEN _to you_ (John 16:1; John 16:4; John 16:6 must be rendered alike), _that when_
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...
ΛΕΛΆΛΗΚΑ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΛΑΛΈΩ, _см._ John 16:1. ΈΛΘΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ, _см._ John 16:2. _Conj._ с ΌΤΑΝ того> обобщает, ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΗΤΕ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΩ (G3421) помнить....
THESE THINGS I SAID NOT, &C.— The original signifies, "I did not _inculcate_ these things upon you from the beginning;—I did not _insist_ upon them, because the lesson would come time enough before my...
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...
But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you. BUT THESE TH...
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 TIME] RV 'their hour,' i.e. the hour of your enemies' apparent triumph. YE MAY REMEMBER] The Apostles' persecutions would be easier to bear, if it was clearly understood that they were foreordaine...
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...
BUT THESE THINGS HAVE I TOLD YOU... — He recurs to the thought of John 16:1. (Comp. also John 13:19; John 14:29.) He strengthens them by forewarning them. When the persecution comes they will remember...
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...
ἀλλὰ ταῦτα … ὑμῖν. This repeats John 16:1, but He now adds an explanation of His silence up to this time regarding their future: ταῦτα δὲ ὑμῖν … ἤμην. ἐξ ἀρχῆς = ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς of John 15:27, Holtzmann. If...
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...
_That when the hour of them shall come [1] , you may remember that I told you. This is both the sense and the construction, by the Greek text, which here determines the construction of the Latin. (Wit...
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...
4._That when the hour cometh, you may remember. _He repeats what he had already said, that this is not a philosophy fitted only for a season of leisure, but that it is adapted to practice and use, and...
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...
BUT THESE THINGS HAVE I TOLD YOU,.... Christ enlarged on this disagreeable subject, and was the more particular in enumerating the evils his apostles were to endure for his name's sake: THAT WHEN THE...
But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you. Ver. 4. _Ye ma...
_But these things have I told you_ And forewarned you of them; _that when the time shall come_ In which they shall happen; _ye may remember that I told you of them_ And so may turn what has so discour...
I WAS WITH YOU; it was not then needful for them to know the trials that were coming upon them; but as he was to depart, it became needful that by looking to the Holy Spirit they might be prepared to...
COMFORT AGAINST THE WORLD'S HATRED. The intensity of the world's hatred:...
BUT THESE THINGS HAVE I TOLD YOU THAT, WHEN THE TIME SHALL COME, YE MAY REMEMBER THAT I TOLD YOU OF THEM. AND THESE THINGS I SAID NOT UNTO YOU AT THE BEGINNING, BECAUSE I WAS WITH YOU. Jesus had both...
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...
Whatsoever I have discovered to you formerly, of my going to my Father, the coming of the Holy Ghost, your sufferings from the world, I have told you of before; you will see that they will most certai...
John 16:4 But G235 things G5023 told G2980 (G5758) you G5213 that G2443 when G3752 time G5610 comes...
THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (JOHN 16:4)....
“And these things I did not say to you from the beginning because I was with you, but now I am going to him who sent me. And none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?' But because I have spoken these...
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...
John 16:4. BUT THESE THINGS HAVE I SPOKEN UNTO YOU, THAT, WHEN THEIR HOUR IS COME, YE MAY REMEMBER THEM, THAT I TOLD YOU. The analogy of such passages as chaps. John 2:22; John 12:16;...
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...
HAVE I SPOKEN (λελαληκα). Perfect active indicative as in John 15:11; John 16:1. Solemn repetition.WHEN THEIR HOUR IS COME (οταν ελθη η ωρα αυτων). Indefinite temporal clause, οταν with the second...
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...
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...
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....
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_...
_But these things have I told you, that when the hour shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them_. (1.) S. Cyril (x. 13) supplies the connection thus. I have not said these things to enervate...
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...
Ephesians 4:7; Hebrews 1:3; Hebrews 12:2; John 13:3; John 13:36;...
But [α λ λ α]. Marks a breaking off of the enumeration of fearful details; but (to say no more of these things), I have spoken these, etc. At the beginning [ε ξ α ρ χ η ς]. Properly, from the beginni...
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...