John 16:1
These things I have spoken to you, so that you should not be made to stumble.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 11:6And blessed is the one who is not offended because of Me.” 1 Jesus' Tribute to John
Matthew 13:57So they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, and in his own house.”
Matthew 26:31Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of Me on this night, for it is written: 1 ‘ I will strike the Shepherd, 1 and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
John 15:18“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.
Romans 14:21It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor to do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or becomes weak.
1 Peter 2:8and “ a stone of stumbling 1 and a rock of offense.” They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.
Matthew Henry on John 16:1
Among other glorious things God hath spoken of himself this is one, I wound, and I heal, Deut. xxxii. 39 . Christ's discourse in this chapter, which continues and concludes his farewell sermon to his disciples, does so. I. Here are wounding words in the notice he gives them of the troubles that were before them, ver. 1-6 . II. Here are healing words in the comforts he administers to them for their support under those troubles, which are five:—1. That he would send them the Comforter, ver. 7-15 . 2. That he would… Read the whole commentary →