John 16:5

“Now then, I am going away to Him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?

In Context

4Now I have told you these things so that when the time comes you may remember that I told you about them; I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.

6But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

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Cross References

John 6:62What if you should see the Son of the Man going up to where He was at first?

John 13:3Jesus, knowing that the Father had given everything into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God,

John 14:4Now you know where I am going, and you know the way.”

John 16:10then about righteousness, because I am going away to my Father and you will no longer see me;

John 16:28I did come forth from the Father and have come into the world. I am leaving the world again and am going to the Father.”

John 17:13But now I am coming to You, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made full in them.

Matthew Henry on John 16:2-7

Persecution Foretold; The Expediency of Christ's Departure. 1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. 2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. 3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. 4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning,… Read the whole commentary →

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