John 16:1
These thinges have I sayde vnto you because ye shuld not be offended.
Tyndale New Testament
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 happy is he that is not offended by me.
Matthew 13:57And they were offended by him. The Iesus sayd to the a Prophet is not with out honoure save in hys awne countre and amonge his awne kynne.
Matthew 26:31Then sayd Iesus vnto them: all ye shall be offended by me this night. For it is wrytten. I will smyte the shepe herde and the shepe of the flocke shalbe scattered abroode.
John 15:18Yf the worlde hate you ye knowe that he hated me before he hated you.
Romans 14:21It is good nether to eate flesshe nether to drincke wyne nether eny thinge wherby thy brother stombleth ether falleth or is made weake.
1 Peter 2:8and a stone to stomble at and a rocke to offende them which stomble at the worde and beleve not that where on they were set.
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 →