John 16:1
I have spoken to you in this way so that you may not falter.
Twentieth Century 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 11:6And blessed is the man who finds no hindrance in me.”
Matthew 13:57These things proved a hindrance to their believing in him; whereupon Jesus said: “A prophet is not without honour, except in his own country and in his own house.”
Matthew 26:31Then Jesus said to them: “Even you will all fall away from me to-night. Scripture says — ‘I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
John 15:18If the world hates you, you know that it has first hated me.
Romans 14:21The right course is to abstain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything that is a stumbling-block to your Brother.
1 Peter 2:8and ‘a stumbling-block, and a rock which shall prove a hindrance.’ They stumble because they do not accept the Message. This was the fate destined for them.
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 →