Chapter 16:
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John 16
Verse 2. The time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think he doth
God service - But, blessed be God, the time is so far past, that
those who bear the name of Christ do not now generally suppose
they do him service by killing each other for a difference in
opinion or mode of worship.
Verse
3. They have not known the Father nor me - This is the true root
of persecution in all its forms.
Verse
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.
Verse
5. None of you asketh me - Now when it is most seasonable. Peter
did ask this before, chap. xiii, 36.
Verse
7. It is expedient for you - In respect of the Comforter, ver. 7, &c.,
and of me, ver. 16, &c., and of the Father, ver. 23, &c.
Verse
8. He - Observe his twofold office; toward the world, ver. 8, &c.;
toward believers, ver. 12, &c.: will convince - All of the world -
Who do not obstinately resist, by your preaching and miracles, of
sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment - He who is convinced
of sin either accepts the righteousness of Christ, or is judged with
Satan. An abundant accomplishment of this we find in the Acts of
the Apostles.
Verse
9. Of sin - Particularly of unbelief, which is the confluence of all
sins, and binds them all down upon us.
Verse
10. Of righteousness, because I go to my Father - Which the Spirit
will testify, though ye do not then see me. But I could not go to
him if I were not righteous.
Verse
11. The prince of this world is judged - And in consequence
thereof dethroned, deprived of the power he had so long usurped
over men. Yet those who reject the deliverance offered them will
remain slaves of Satan still.
Verse
12. I have yet many things to say - Concerning my passion, death,
resurrection, and the consequences of it. These things we have,
not in uncertain traditions, but in the Acts, the Epistles, and the
Revelation. But ye cannot bear them now - Both because of your
littleness of faith, and your immoderate sorrow.
Verse
13. When he is come - It is universally allowed that the Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost dwell in all believers. And the internal
agency of the Holy Ghost is generally admitted. That of the Father
and the Son, as represented in this Gospel, deserves our deepest
consideration.
Verse
15. All things that the Father hath are mine - Could any creature
say this?
Verse
16. A little while and ye shall not see me - When I am buried: and
again, a little while, and ye shall see me - When I am risen:
because I go to my Father - I die and rise again, in order to ascend
to my Father.
Verse
19. Jesus said to them - Preventing their question.
Verse
20. Ye will weep and lament - When ye see me dead; but your
sorrow will be turned into joy - When ye see me risen.
Verse
22. Ye now therefore have sorrow - This gives us no manner of
authority to assert all believers must come into a state of darkness.
They never need lose either their peace, or love, or the witness
that they are the children of God. They never can lose these, but
either through sin, or ignorance, or vehement temptation, or
bodily disorder.
Verse
23. Ye shall not question me about any thing - Which you do not
now understand. You will not need to inquire of me; for you will
know all things clearly. Whatsoever ye shall ask - Knowledge,
love, or any thing else, he will give it - Our Lord here gives us a
charte blanche. Believer, write down what thou wilt. He had said,
chap. xiv, 13, I will do it, where the discourse was of glorifying
the Father through the Son. Here, speaking of the love of the
Father to believers, he saith, He will give it.
Verse
24. Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name - For they had
asked him directly for all they wanted.
Verse
26. At that day ye shall ask - For true knowledge begets prayer.
And I say not that I will pray - This in nowise implies that he will
not: it means only, The Father himself now loves you, not only
because of my intercession, but also because of the faith and love
which he hath wrought in you.
Verse
30. Thou knowest all things - Even our hearts. Although no
question is asked thee, yet thou answerest the thoughts of every
one. By this we believe that thou camest forth from God - They,
as it were, echo back the words which he had spoken in ver. 27,
implying, We believe in God; we believe also in thee.
Chapter 16:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Lightfoot
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| McGarvey Pendleton
| McGee
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Luke Acts
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