John 16:28
I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world: again I leave the world, and go to the Father.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
29His disciples said to him: Lo, now thou speakest plainly, and speakest no parable.
Cross References
Luke 24:51And it came to pass, that as he blessed them, he was separated from them, and carried up into heaven.
John 13:1Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come that he must go out of this world to his Father; and having loved his own that were in the world, he loved them to the end.
John 14:28You have heard that I said to you, I am going away, and am coming again to you. If you loved me, you would rejoice, because I go to the Father; for my Father is greater than I.
John 16:16A little while, and you will not see me; and again, a little while, and you will see me, because I go to the Father.
John 17:11And I am no longer in the world; but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep in thy name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are one.
Acts 1:9And when he had spoken these things, while they were looking on him, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
Matthew Henry on John 16:24-28
Encouragement to Prayer. 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. 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 show 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… Read the whole commentary →