John 16:1
These things have I said to you, that ye may not be stumbled.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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, who shall not be stumbled at me.
Matthew 13:57And they were stumbled at him. But Jesus said to them: There is no prophet who is little, except in his own city and in his own house.
Matthew 26:31Then said Jesus to them: Ye will all be offended in me this night; for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of his flock will be dispersed.
John 15:18And if the world hate you, know ye, that it hated me before you.
Romans 14:21It is proper, that we neither eat flesh, nor drink wine, nor do any thing, whereby our brother is stumbled.
1 Peter 2:8he is a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence. And they stumble at it, because they believe not the word: whereto they were 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 →