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William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 16:25-28

16:25-28 "I have spoken these things to you in sayings that are hard to understand; but the hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in sayings that are hard to understand, but I will tell you plainly about the Father. In that day you will ask in my name. I do not say that I will ask the Father for you, because the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came forth from the Father. I came forth from the Father, and I came into the world; I am... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 16:29-33

16:29-33 His disciples said: "See! now you are speaking clearly, and you are not speaking in hard sayings. Now we know that you know all things, and that you do not need that anyone should ask you anything. Because of this we believe that you came forth from God." Jesus answered them: "So you believe at this moment? See! the hour is coming--it has come--when each of you will be scattered to your own homes, and you will leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. I... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 16:1

These things have I spoken unto you ,.... Concerning the world's hatred and persecution of them, and the little regard they would show to their doctrine: these things Christ thought, proper to give them notice of before hand, that expecting them, they might be prepared for them, and be fortified against them; that , says he, ye should not be offended : his view in speaking of them, was not to discourage them, but to prevent their stumbling at them, and falling by them. Hardships... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 16:2

They shall put you out of the synagogues ,.... The Jews had made a law already, that he that confessed that Jesus was the Messiah, should be cast out of their synagogues; and they had put it in execution upon the blind man Christ restored to sight, for his profession of faith in him; which struck such a terror upon the people, that even many of the chief rulers who believed that Jesus was the true Messiah, durst not confess him, because of this law; for it was what they could not bear the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 16:3

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 their lives; it was pure wilful ignorance of the Father and himself; because they have not known the Father nor me ; though they boasted of their knowledge of God; yet they knew him not as the Father and sender of Christ, at least they would not own him as such: nor Jesus as the true... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 16:4

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 time shall come ; some copies read it, "their time"; so the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic render it; that is, the time when wicked men will be suffered to vent all their rage and malice: ye may remember that I told you of them ; which might serve greatly to confirm them in the faith... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 16:5

But now I go my way to him that sent me ,.... These words seem to belong to John 16:4 , and to contain a reason why Christ spoke of the trials and afflictions of his disciples now, because he was going away from them to his Father; when as they would be at the head of his affairs in this world, so they would the more become the butt of the rage of men: and none of you asketh me, whither goest thou ? Peter indeed asked the question, John 13:36 ; but his meaning was, what part of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 16:6

But because I have said these things to you ,.... Of being hated and persecuted by the Jews, of being put out of their synagogues, and of losing of their lives; and particularly of his departure from them, or the loss of his bodily presence: sorrow hath filled your heart ; sorrow for his absence so possessed their minds, seized on all the powers and faculties of their souls, and engrossed all their thoughts, that it never entered into the heart of any of them, to inquire about the place... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 16:7

Nevertheless, I tell you the truth ,.... Christ was truth itself, and could say nothing else; but he makes use of this way of speaking, to raise the attention of his disciples, and to engage their belief of what he was about to say, and of which they were not easily persuaded; which was, that however overwhelmed they were with grief and sorrow, because of his going away from them, a greater truth he could not tell them, than that this would be to their real good and advantage: it is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 16:8

And when he is come ,.... The coming of the Spirit here, chiefly designs his descent upon the apostles, at the day of "Pentecost": as the things ascribed to him, and which were then done by him, clearly show; though it may also include his coming along with, and by the ministration of the Gospel, into the hearts of his people at conversion, in all after ages of time: he will reprove the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment : by "the world" is principally meant, the Jews; the... read more

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 16:25-28

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 16:29-33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 16:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 16:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 16:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 16:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 16:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 16:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 16:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 16:8

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