John 16:28
I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.”
World Messianic Bible British
In The King James Version
In Context
27for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.
29His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech.
Cross References
Luke 24:51While he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.
John 13:1Now before the feast of the Passover, Yeshua, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
John 14:28You heard how I told you, ‘I am going away, and I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.
John 16:16“A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”
John 17:11I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
Acts 1:9When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received 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 →