John 16:28
I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
27For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.
29His disciples said to Him, “See, now You are speaking plainly and without figures of speech.
Cross References
Luke 24:51While He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven.
John 13:1It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
John 14:28You heard Me say, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because My Father is greater than I.
John 16:16In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me, because I am going away to the Father.”
John 17:11I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.
Acts 1:9After He had said this, they watched as He was taken up, and a cloud hid Him from 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 →