“ _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 ]