John 16

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V1 "These things have I spoken^[1] unto you, that ye should not be offended.^[2] "to put a stumbling block or impediment in the way, upon which another may trip and fall, metaph. to offend; to entice to sin"
V2 "They shall put you out ^[3] of the synagogues"
V3 "they have not known the Father, nor me." They lived in darkness^[4] because they ate ate the tables of their Father who was Caesar in Rome and Herod and their Corban.
V4 'I told you^[1], so ye may remember because I was with you.
V5 I go my way to him that sent me





Questions

Not offended

1 ¶ These things have I spoken^[1] unto you, that ye should not be offended.

2 They shall put you out ^[3] of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

The Work of the Holy Spirit

4 But these things have I told you^[1], that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.

5 But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?

6 But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

It is expedient

7 ¶ Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient^[5] for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment^[6]:

9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;

10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;

11 Of judgment^[6], because the prince^[7] of this world is judged.

12 I have yet many things to say^[1] unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

Your Sorrow Will Turn into Joy

16 ¶ A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.

17 Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?

18 They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.

19 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me?

20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

Ask the Father

23 ¶ And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.

24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

I Have Overcome the World

25 These things have I spoken^[1] unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.

26 At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:

27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

Come into the world

28 ¶ I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.

29 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 that thou camest forth fro

31 Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?

32 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.

33 These things I have spoken^[1] unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6
Things spoken
- Psalms 87:3 "Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God."
- John 14:25-26 “‭25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. ‭26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
- John 15:11-13 “‭11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. ‭12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. ‭13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
- John 16:1-4 “‭1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. {offended: scandalized or, made to stumble} ‭2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. ‭3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. ‭4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.”
- John 16:25 “‭25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.”
- John 16:33 “‭33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”
- John 20:17-18 “‭17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my [[Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. ‭18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.”
- John 16:12 "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now."
↑ 4624 ~σκανδαλίζω~ skandalizo \@skan-dal-id’-zo\@ ("scandalize") from 4625 skandalon figuratively, cause of sin, derivative of kampto a snare; TDNT-7:339,1036; {See TDNT 715} v AV-offend 28, make to offend 2; 30
1) to put a stumbling block or impediment in the way, upon which another may trip and fall, metaph. to offend
1a) to entice to sin

1b) to cause a person to begin to distrust and desert one whom he ought to trust and obey
1b1) to cause to fall away

1b2) to be offended in one, i.e. to see in another what I disapprove of and what hinders me from acknowledging his authority

1b3) to cause one to judge unfavourably or unjustly of another

1c) since one who stumbles or whose foot gets entangled feels annoyed
1c1) to cause one displeasure at a thing

1c2) to make indignant

1c3) to be displeased, indignant
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Put out
Deuteronomy 8:14 "Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;"

Proverbs 20:20 "Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness."

John 9:22 "These [words] spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue."

John 12:42 "Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess [him], lest they should be put out of the synagogue:"

John 16:2 "They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service."

Proverbs 29:25 ¶ "The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe."
↑ Eyes darkened
Psalms 69:22 "Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake."

Psalms 107:10 "Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, [being] bound in affliction and iron;"

Isaiah 9:2 "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined."

Isaiah 42:7 "To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, [and] them that sit in darkness out of the prison house."

Isaiah 42:16 "And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them."

Isaiah 49:6 "And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth."

Ecclesiastes 2:14 "The wise man’s eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all."

Micah 7:8 "Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto me."

Matthew 4:16 “‭The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.”

Luke 1:79 "To give light to them that sit in darkness and [in] the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."

John 1:9 [That] was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

Romans 11:10 "Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway"

2 Corinthians 6:14 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”

Job 34:22 "There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves."

Matthew 6:23 “‭But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!”

1 John 2:10 "He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes."

John 3:19 "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." See Born again.
↑ 4851 συμφέρω sumphero [soom-fer’-o] from 4862 Sun with and 5342 phero carry (including its alternate); v; TDNT- 9:69,1252; [{See TDNT 827 }] AV-be expedient 7, profit 4, be profitable 3, bring together 1, be better 1, be good 1; 17
1) to bear or bring together

2) to bear together or at the same time
2a) to carry with others

2b) to collect or contribute in order to help

2c) to help, be profitable, be expedient
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 2920 κρίσις krisis [kree’-sis] perhaps a primitive word; n f; TDNT-3:941,469; [{See TDNT 412 }] AV-judgment 41, damnation 3, accusation 2, condemnation 2; 48
1) a separating, sundering, separation
1a) a trial, contest

2) selection

3) judgment
3a) opinion or decision given concerning anything
3a1) esp. concerning justice and injustice, right or wrong

3b) sentence of condemnation, damnatory judgment, condemnation and punishment

4) the college of judges (a tribunal of seven men in the several cities of Palestine; as distinguished from the Sanhedrin, which had its seat at Jerusalem)

5) right, justice
↑ 758 ~ἄρχων~ archon \@ar’-khone\@ present participle of 757; TDNT-1:488,81; {See TDNT 102} n m AV-ruler 22, prince 11, chief 2, magistrate 1, chief ruler 1; 37
1) a ruler, commander, chief, leader

[thingsspoken-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 Things spoken
Psalms 87:3 "Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God."

John 14:25-26 “‭25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. ‭26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”

John 15:11-13 “‭11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. ‭12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. ‭13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

John 16:1-4 “‭1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. {offended: scandalized or, made to stumble} ‭2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. ‭3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. ‭4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.”

John 16:25 “‭25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.”

John 16:33 “‭33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”

John 20:17-18 “‭17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my [[Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. ‭18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.”

John 16:12 "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now."

[2] Psalms 87:3 "Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God."

[3] John 14:25-26 “‭25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. ‭26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”

[4] John 15:11-13 “‭11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. ‭12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. ‭13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

[5] John 16:1-4 “‭1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. {offended: scandalized or, made to stumble} ‭2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. ‭3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. ‭4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.”

[6] John 16:25 “‭25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.”

[7] John 16:33 “‭33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”

[8] John 20:17-18 “‭17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my [[Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. ‭18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.”

[9] John 16:12 "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now."

[skandalizo-2] 4624 ~σκανδαλίζω~ skandalizo \@skan-dal-id’-zo\@ ("scandalize") from 4625 skandalon figuratively, cause of sin, derivative of kampto a snare; TDNT-7:339,1036; {See TDNT 715} v AV-offend 28, make to offend 2; 30
1) to put a stumbling block or impediment in the way, upon which another may trip and fall, metaph. to offend
1a) to entice to sin

1b) to cause a person to begin to distrust and desert one whom he ought to trust and obey
1b1) to cause to fall away

1b2) to be offended in one, i.e. to see in another what I disapprove of and what hinders me from acknowledging his authority

1b3) to cause one to judge unfavourably or unjustly of another

1c) since one who stumbles or whose foot gets entangled feels annoyed
1c1) to cause one displeasure at a thing

1c2) to make indignant

1c3) to be displeased, indignant

[kickedout-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Put out
Deuteronomy 8:14 "Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;"

Proverbs 20:20 "Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness."

John 9:22 "These [words] spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue."

John 12:42 "Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess [him], lest they should be put out of the synagogue:"

John 16:2 "They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service."

Proverbs 29:25 ¶ "The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe."

[darkened-4] Eyes darkened
Psalms 69:22 "Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake."

Psalms 107:10 "Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, [being] bound in affliction and iron;"

Isaiah 9:2 "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined."

Isaiah 42:7 "To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, [and] them that sit in darkness out of the prison house."

Isaiah 42:16 "And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them."

Isaiah 49:6 "And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth."

Ecclesiastes 2:14 "The wise man’s eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all."

Micah 7:8 "Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto me."

Matthew 4:16 “‭The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.”

Luke 1:79 "To give light to them that sit in darkness and [in] the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."

John 1:9 [That] was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

Romans 11:10 "Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway"

2 Corinthians 6:14 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”

Job 34:22 "There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves."

Matthew 6:23 “‭But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!”

1 John 2:10 "He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes."

John 3:19 "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." See Born again.

[sumphero-5] 4851 συμφέρω sumphero [soom-fer’-o] from 4862 Sun with and 5342 phero carry (including its alternate); v; TDNT- 9:69,1252; [{See TDNT 827 }] AV-be expedient 7, profit 4, be profitable 3, bring together 1, be better 1, be good 1; 17
1) to bear or bring together

2) to bear together or at the same time
2a) to carry with others

2b) to collect or contribute in order to help

2c) to help, be profitable, be expedient

[krisis-6] 6.0 ^6.1 2920 κρίσις krisis [kree’-sis] perhaps a primitive word; n f; TDNT-3:941,469; [{See TDNT 412 }] AV-judgment 41, damnation 3, accusation 2, condemnation 2; 48
1) a separating, sundering, separation
1a) a trial, contest

2) selection

3) judgment
3a) opinion or decision given concerning anything
3a1) esp. concerning justice and injustice, right or wrong

3b) sentence of condemnation, damnatory judgment, condemnation and punishment

4) the college of judges (a tribunal of seven men in the several cities of Palestine; as distinguished from the Sanhedrin, which had its seat at Jerusalem)

5) right, justice

[archon-7] 758 ~ἄρχων~ archon \@ar’-khone\@ present participle of 757; TDNT-1:488,81; {See TDNT 102} n m AV-ruler 22, prince 11, chief 2, magistrate 1, chief ruler 1; 37
1) a ruler, commander, chief, leader

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John 16

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Not offended

The Work of the Holy Spirit

It is expedient

Your Sorrow Will Turn into Joy

Ask the Father

I Have Overcome the World

Come into the world

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John 16

Not offended

The Work of the Holy Spirit

It is expedient

Your Sorrow Will Turn into Joy

Ask the Father

I Have Overcome the World

Come into the world

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