John 16:1
These have I spoken with you, that you may not be offended.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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 he who shall not be offended with me.
Matthew 13:57And they were offended with him. But Jeshu said to them, No prophet is contemned except in his own city, and in his own house.
Matthew 26:31THEN said Jeshu unto them, You all shall be offended in me this night; for it is written, I will strike the shepherd, and scattered shall be the sheep of his flock.
John 15:18And if the world hate you, know that, before you, it hated me.
Romans 14:21It is well not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing by which our brother is offended.
1 Peter 2:8or a stone of stumbling, and they are offended at him in not obeying the word, because to this they are 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 →