John 16:28
I came out from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I am leaving the world, and going to the Father.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
29His disciples said unto him, Lo! now thou speakest plainly, and speakest in no-wise proverbial.
Cross References
Luke 24:51And it came to pass, as he pronounced the benediction upon them, he was parted from them, and taken up into heaven.
John 13:1NOW before the feast of the passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour was come, that he should go out of this world to the Father, having loved his peculiar people that are in the world, he loved them to the end.
John 14:28Ye have heard that I told you, I am going away, though I am coming again to you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I am going to the Father: because my Father is greater than I.
John 16:16A little while longer, and ye shall not see me: and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I am going to the Father.
John 17:11And now no longer am I in this world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father! preserve them for thy name’s sake whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
Acts 1:9And as he was speaking these things, while they were looking upon him, he was taken up; and a cloud enveloping him hid him from their eyes.
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 →