John 16:28
I did come forth from the Father and have come into the world. I am leaving the world again and am going to the Father.”
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
29His disciples say to Him: “Hey, now you are speaking plainly and using no figure of speech!
Cross References
Luke 24:51And it happened, as He was blessing them, that He left 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 from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world He loved them to the end.
John 14:28“You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me you would have been glad that I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ because my Father is greater than I.
John 16:16“In just a little you will not see me, and in another little you will see me, because I am going to the Father.”
John 17:11Now I am no longer in the world, yet these are in the world, and I am coming to You. “Holy Father, keep them in Your name which You have given to me, so that they may be one just as we are.
Acts 1:9Upon saying these things, as they watched, He was lifted up, and a cloud took 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 →