John 16:1
“These things I have spoken to you, that you may not be stumbled.
Literal Standard Version
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 he who may not be stumbled in Me.”
Matthew 13:57And they were stumbled at Him. And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, and in his own house”:
Matthew 26:31then Jesus says to them, “All you will be stumbled at Me this night; for it has been written: I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered abroad;
John 15:18if the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before you;
Romans 14:21[It is] not right to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to [do anything] in which your brother stumbles, or is made to fall, or is weak.
1 Peter 2:8and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense—who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving—to which they were also set.
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 →