John 16:28
I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
In Context
29His disciples said to him, “Behold, now yoʋ are speaking plainly and not using any figure of speech.
Cross References
Luke 24:51While he was blessing them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven.
John 13:1Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
John 14:28You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced that I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ because my Father is greater than I am.
John 16:16“In a little while you will not see me; and again after a little while, you will see me, for I am going to the Father.”
John 17:11I will no longer remain in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to yoʋ. Holy Father, keep them in yoʋr name, which yoʋ have given me, so that they may be one, just as we are one.
Acts 1:9After he said this, he was lifted up as they looked on, and a cloud took him out of 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 →