John 16:1
“I have said these things to you so that you will not fall away.
Text-Critical English NT
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 anyone who does not take offense at me.”
Matthew 13:57And they took offense at him. Then Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.”
Matthew 26:31Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will fall away because of me this night. For it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
John 15:18“If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.
Romans 14:21It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything by which yoʋr brother stumbles or is offended or made weak.
1 Peter 2:8and, “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” By disobeying the word they stumble, which is what they were appointed to do.
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 →