John 16:28
I came out from the Father and have come into the world; again, I leave the world and go to the Father.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
29His disciples say to him, Lo, now thou speakest openly and utterest no allegory.
Cross References
Luke 24:51And it came to pass as he was blessing them, he was separated from them and was carried up into heaven.
John 13:1Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.
John 14:28Ye have heard that I have said unto you, I go away and I am coming to you. If ye loved me ye would rejoice that I go to the Father, for [my] Father is greater than I.
John 16:16A little while and ye do not behold me; and again a little while and ye shall see me, [because I go away to the Father].
John 17:11And I am no longer in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one as we.
Acts 1:9And having said these things he was taken up, they beholding [him], 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 →