John 16:1
“I have spoken these things to you to avoid your being caused to stumble
Family 35 New Testament
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 be whoever is not offended at Me!”
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 says to them: “All of you will be caused to stumble because of me this night, for it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
John 15:18“When the world hates you, you can be sure that it has hated me first.
Romans 14:21It is good not to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weakened.
1 Peter 2:8also “a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense”; being disobedient to the Word, they stumble, to which, indeed, they 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 →