John 16

John 16:1-11

¹“I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble. ²They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God. ³They will do these things because they have not known the Father nor me. ⁴But I have told you these things so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. ⁵But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ ⁶But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. ⁷Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. ⁸When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment; ⁹about sin, because they don’t believe in me; ¹⁰about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more; ¹¹about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

Jesus warns so they will not fall; expulsion and killing will seem service to God; it is better He goes so the Helper comes to convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment.

John 16:12

¹²“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

Jesus has more to say than they can bear; the Spirit of truth will guide into all truth, speaking what He hears, glorifying Jesus by declaring what is His—and all the Father has is the Son’s.

John 16:13

¹³However, when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

Jesus has more to say than they can bear; the Spirit of truth will guide into all truth, speaking what He hears, glorifying Jesus by declaring what is His—and all the Father has is the Son’s.

John 16:14-15

¹⁴He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine and will declare it to you. ¹⁵All things that the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine and will declare it to you.

Jesus has more to say than they can bear; the Spirit of truth will guide into all truth, speaking what He hears, glorifying Jesus by declaring what is His—and all the Father has is the Son’s.

John 16:16

¹⁶“A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

Jesus says a little while and they will not see Him, then a little while and they will see Him.

John 16:17-18

¹⁷Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?” ¹⁸They said therefore, “What is this that he says, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what he is saying.”

Disciples puzzle among themselves about the little while and His going to the Father.

John 16:19-22

¹⁹Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’? ²⁰Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. ²¹A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world. ²²Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

Jesus knows their desire to ask; sorrow will turn to joy like a woman in childbirth; He will see them again and their joy no one takes.

John 16:23-24

²³“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. ²⁴Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

In that day they will ask the Father in Jesus’ name and receive, that their joy may be full; until now they asked nothing in His name.

John 16:25-28

²⁵“I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father. ²⁶In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you that I will pray to the Father for you, ²⁷for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God. ²⁸I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.”

Jesus will speak plainly of the Father; they will ask in His name; the Father Himself loves them because they loved Jesus and believed He came from God; He came from and returns to the Father.

John 16:29-30

²⁹His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech. ³⁰Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”

Disciples claim He now speaks plainly and that they know He knows all and came from God.

John 16:31-33

³¹Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? ³²Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. ³³I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Jesus asks if they now believe, predicts they will scatter and leave Him alone—yet not alone, for the Father is with Him—and offers peace; in Him they have peace, in the world tribulation; He has overcome the world.

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