John 16:1

Jesus kept on talking to his followers. He said, “I told you all this so that you will keep on trusting me.

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These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.

In Context

2After I go away, the Jewish leaders will not let you into their meeting houses to pray to God with them. And a time is coming when people will kill you, and they will think that God wants them to do that.

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Cross References

Matthew 11:6Maybe I’m not the sort of person you thought God would send, but just trust me anyway, and God will make you happy.”

John 15:18Jesus kept on talking to his followers. He said, “Listen. When the people of this world hate you, just remember that they hated me first.

Romans 14:21So if another Christian will get upset and go wrong because you eat meat or drink wine, then don’t eat any meat, and don’t drink any wine.

1 Peter 2:8God says this about Jesus too, in his book, “He will be like a stone that people trip over, so that they fall down and hurt themselves.” You see, people that don’t trust in Jesus, they go wrong and stop following God. It’s like they fall down and hurt themselves. They go wrong because they don’t listen to God’s word, and they don’t do what it says. You know, God planned all that trouble for them a long time ago.

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 →

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