John 16:1
"I have told you all this so that you may not stumble.
Montgomery 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 11:6"And blessed is the man who finds no cause of stumbling in me."
Matthew 13:57This kept them from believing in him. Wherefore Jesus said, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and among his own family."
Matthew 26:31Then Jesus said to them. "This very night even you will all stumble and fall away from me; for it is written, "I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.
John 15:18"do not forget that it hated me first.
Romans 14:21The right course is not to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything through which your brother is made to stumble.
1 Peter 2:8and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. They stumble over it because they are disobeying God’s word, and to this they were also appointed.
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 →