John 16:5

“But now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are yoʋ going?’

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?

In Context

4But I have said these things to you so that when the hour comes you will remember that I said them to you. I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

6Rather, sorrow has filled your hearts because I have said these things to you.

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Cross References

John 6:62Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

John 13:3Jesus knew that the Father had put all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

John 14:4You know where I am going, and you know the way.”

John 16:10concerning righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you will no longer see me;

John 16:28I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

John 17:13But now I am coming to yoʋ, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made full within them.

Matthew Henry on John 16:2-7

Persecution Foretold; The Expediency of Christ's Departure. 1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. 2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. 3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. 4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning,… Read the whole commentary →

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