“ _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 to God._ 3. _And they will do these things to you_, _because they have not known the Father nor me.... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _But now I go away to him who sent me; and no one of you asks me, Whither goest thou?_ 6. _But, because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart._ 7. _But I tell you the truth: it is expedient for you that I go away; for, if I go not away, the support will not come to you; but... [ Continue Reading ]
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_ (already announced in John 15:26-27), who will gain the victory through them, John 16:5-7; He then describ... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _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 you will see me no more;_ 11, _of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged._ ” Here is... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _I have yet many things to say to you; but you have not now the strength to bear them._ 13. _When he, the Spirit of truth, shall have come, he will lead you into all the truth;for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall have heard_, _he shall speak, and he shall announce to you the... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _He shall glorify me, for He shall take of what is mine and shall announce it to you._ 15. _All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine and shall announce it to you._ ” The _asyndeton_ between John 16:13-14 proves that Jesus only reproduces under a new and more emphatic... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _Yet a little while, and you see me no more;again, a little while, and you shall see me, because I go to the Father._ 17. _Therefore some of his disciples said among themselves: What does this mean, which he says to us: Yet a little while and you do not see me;again, a little while and you will se... [ Continue Reading ]
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 16-24. 1. The connection of the μικρόν with what precedes and the similarity in the expression to that in John 14:19 show that the two passages refer to the same thing. For the evidence that the reference is to the time of and after the coming of the Sp... [ Continue Reading ]
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 which occupies the thought of the present moment, that of His impending departure. This is natural;... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _Now Jesus knew that they desired to ask him, and he said to them: Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this that I said: In a little while you will not see me, and again in a little while you will see me._ 20. _Verily, verily, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will r... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _A woman, when she is in travail, has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has brought forth the child, she remembers no more her anguish for the joy she has that a man is born into the world._ 22. _And you also now have sorrow;but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice; and... [ Continue Reading ]
VV. 22 makes the application of the comparison. The term: _I will see you_, cannot be synonymous with: _you shall see me_ (John 16:16-17; John 16:19). The fact of the spiritual seeing again is presented here from the point of view of Jesus, not of the disciples. The death of Jesus not only separated... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _At that day you shall not question me as to anything: verily, verily, I say to you, that all that which you shall ask the Father_, _he will give it to you in my name._ 24. _Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name; ask_, _and you shall receive, that your joy may be fulfilled._ ” Jesus here desc... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _I have spoken these things to you in similitudes; but the hour is coming when I shall no more speak to you in similitudes, but when I shall speak to you openly of the Father._ 26. _In that day ye will need only to ask in my name; and I say not to you that I will pray the Father for you;_ 27, _for... [ Continue Reading ]
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 in the previous verses: the communication with the Father in the name of Christ. It is also indicat... [ Continue Reading ]
VER. 28. “ _I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world; and again I leave the world and go to the Father._ ” What the disciples had the most difficulty in understanding was that Jesus should leave the world where, in their thought, the Messianic kingdom was to be realized. They had, m... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _His disciples say to him_, _Lo, now thou speakest plainly, and dost use no similitude;_ 30. _now we know that thou knowest all things and hast no need that any one should ask thee; for this we believe that thou camest forth from God._ ” On hearing this simple and precise recapitulation of all the... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _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, because the Father is with me._ 33. _I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peac... [ Continue Reading ]
VV. 32 reassures the disciples as to the person of their Master; John 16:33 tranquillizes them for themselves. Everything that Jesus has said to them on this last evening should breathe into them a complete quietness, resting upon the foundation of the faith which they have in Him (John 14:1). No do... [ Continue Reading ]