What does John 16:32 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own,e and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me."
Verse John 16:32. _THE HOUR COMETH_] Ye shall shortly have need of all the faith ye profess: ye now believe me to be the _Omniscient_; but ye will find difficulty to maintain this faith when ye see me...
THE HOUR COMETH - To wit, on the next day, when he was crucified. YE SHALL BE SCATTERED - See Matthew 26:31. EVERY MAN TO HIS OWN - That is, as in the margin, to his own home. You shall see me die,...
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 16:23 .) 5. His...
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...
BEHOLD, THE HOUR COMETH, YEA, IS NOW COME. The answer of the Lord shows that he recognized the incompleteness of the faith of his disciples. The words, "Do ye now believe?" question the power of the...
WARNING AND CHALLENGE (John 16:1-4)...
BEHOLD. Greek. _idou._ App-133. THE HOUR. an hour (no art.) All the texts omit "now". SHALL BE SCATTERED. should be dispersed. Greek. _skorpieo._ Occurs elsewhere John 10:12.Matthew 12:30; Luke 11:2...
_the hour cometh_ Better (as in John 16:25), THERE COMETH AN HOUR. _yea, is now come_ Omit -now;" the expression is not the same as John 4:23. _that ye shall be scattered_ Rather, _that ye_ MAY _be...
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION OF THESE DISCOURSES...
VER 29. HIS DISCIPLES SAID TO HIM, LO, NOW YOU SPEAK PLAINLY, AND SPEAK NO PROVERB. 30. NOW ARE WE SURE THAT YOU KNOW ALL THINGS, AND NEED NOT THAT ANY MAN SHOULD ASK YOU; BY THIS WE BELIEVE THAT YOU...
ΈΛΉΛΥΘΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ, _см._ John 16:2. ΣΚΟΡΠΙΣΘΉΤΕ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΣΚΟΡΠΙΆΖΩ (G4650) рассеивать. _Conj._ с ΪΝ (G2443) объясняет ΏΡ (G5610). ΆΨΗΤΕ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΆΦΊΗΜΙ ...
EVERY MAN TO HIS OWN,— Εις τα ιδια : To his own habitation and employment. Dr. Heylin renders it, _Every man to take care of himself._...
HIS VEILED SAYINGS WILL SOON BE MADE PLAIN _Text: John 16:25-33_ 25 These things have I spoken unto you in dark sayings: the hour cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in dark sayings, but sh...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 16:23-33 The following is an Analysis of the dosing section of John 16:— In the closing verses of John 16 the Lord Jesus proceeds to set forth even more fully t...
Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. BEHOLD, THE HOUR COMET...
12 The words of our Lord preserved for us in the four accounts of His life come very far from giving us all that He had to say. They were sadly limited by the incapacity of His hearers. Even His close...
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 previou...
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 n...
BEHOLD, THE HOUR COMETH, YEA, IS NOW COME. — Comp. Notes on Matthew 26:31; Matthew 26:56. EVERY MAN TO HIS OWN. — Or, _his own lodging_ in Jerusalem, which must be here intended. That is, as the marg...
XV. _ LAST WORDS._ "A little while, and ye behold Me no more; and again a little while, and ye shall see Me. Some of His disciples therefore said one to another, What is this that He saith unto us, A...
_Last words_....
GOOD CHEER FOR HOURS OF TRIAL John 16:25-33 God still speaks to us in proverbs. We could not understand or receive the perfect discovery of Himself. These are but part of His ways, Job 26:14. But in...
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...
(10) Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. (10) Neither the wic...
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...
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...
His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb (30) Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe...
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...
32._Yet I am not alone. _This correction is added, in order to inform us that, when Christ is forsaken by men, he loses nothing of his dignity. For since his truth and his glory are founded on himself...
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...
BEHOLD THE HOUR COMETH, YEA, IS NOW COME,.... The time is at hand, yea, it may, in a sense, be said to be already come, it was within an hour: and indeed the following prayer might be delivered in les...
Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. Ver. 32. _Behold, the hou...
_His disciples_ Struck with the correspondence of what he said to what was secretly passing in their own minds; _said, Lo, now speakest thou plainly_ We acknowledge that now thou speakest in such a ma...
Disciples of Christ may at some times possess and manifest strong confidence in him, and at others act as if they had none: were it not for his grace, all would utterly forsake him and perish....
The close of the discourse:...
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...
HIS OWN: Or, his own home...
28-33 Here is a plain declaration of Christ's coming from the Father, and his return to him. The Redeemer, in his entrance, was God manifest in the flesh, and in his departure was received up into glo...
Though you profess that now you do believe, you had need look to your faith; there is yet a trying time coming upon you, when your faith will waver, and you, who have been so long my followers, will l...
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book V And on the fifth day of the week, when we had eaten the passover with Him, and when Judas had dipped his hand into the dish, and received the sop, and was go...
John 16:32 Indeed G2400 (G5628) hour G5610 coming G2064 (G5736) yes G2532 now G3568 come G2064 (G5754) that G2443 scattered G4650 (G5686) each G1538 to G1519 own G2398 and G2532 leave G863 (G5632) Me...
WARNING AND ASSURANCE FOR THE FUTURE (JOHN 16:16). As the time for them to go to Gethsemane approaches Jesus now begins to prepare them for what is to happen there. They are to recognise that what is...
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...
COMETH (ερχετα). Futuristic present middle indicative of ερχομα.YEA, IS COME (κα εληλυθεν). Explanatory use of κα and the perfect active indicative as in John 12:23. The long-looked-for hour (ωρα...
John 16:26 Love the Evidence of Faith I. Our Lord here speaks of His disciples' belief in Him as one of the reasons why the Father loved them. But He puts it second. He puts their belief after their...
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. CONCLU...
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...
DO YOU BELIEVE NOW? They thought they did, but the next day they would be scattered, and Jesus would stand alone....
_Now speakest Then plainly_ THE DISCIPLES’ CONFESSION AND THE MASTER’S WARNING The first words of these discourses were, “Let not your heart be troubled. ” The aim of all was to bring peace and con...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 16:32 WILL BE SCATTERED, EACH TO HIS OWN HOME probably echoes Zechariah 13:7 (quoted in Matthew 26:31 and parallels; compare Matthew 26:56). The shepherd will be deserted by his shee...
_Remember Lot's wife._ She perished because she looked back. "Lest," says S. Ambrose, "as she looked back on the burning Sodom, against the command of the angel, and was changed into a pillar of salt,...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 16:25. PROVERBS, or parables.—Such as the vine, the woman in travail, etc. THE TIME COMETH, ETC.—The Spirit after Pentecost would guide them clearly into all tru...
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 John 4:4; 1 John 5:4; 1 Peter 5:9; 1 Samuel 17:51; 1 Samuel 17:52; 1 Thessalonians 3:4; 1 Thessalonians 3:7; 2 Corinthians 1:3; 2 Corinthians 13:11;...
That [ι ν α]. See on ver. 2, and John 14:12. In the divine counsel the hour cometh that ye may be scattered, and may leave, etc. To his own [ε ι ς τ α ι δ ι α]. To his own home. See on 1 11....