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John 16:5

And now I go to him that sent me, and no man of you asketh me, Whither goest thou? (And now I go to him who sent me, and none of you asketh me, Where goest thou?)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?

In Context

4But these things I spake to you, that when the hour of them shall come, ye have mind, (or so that when their time shall come, ye shall remember), that I said (this) to you. I said not to you these things from the beginning, for I was with you.

6but for I have spoken to you these things, heaviness [or sorrow] hath full-filled your heart (s). (but because I have spoken these things to you, now sorrow hath filled your hearts full.)

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Cross References

John 6:62Therefore if ye see man’s Son ascending [up], where he was before? (And so what if ye see man’s Son ascending up, to the place where he was before?)

John 13:3he witting (or knowing) that the Father gave all things to him into his hands, and that he went out from God, and (now) goeth (back) to God,

John 14:4And whither I go, ye know, and ye know the way.

John 16:10and of rightwiseness (or and about righteousness), for I go to the Father, and now ye shall not see me;

John 16:28I went out from the Father, and I came into the world; again I leave the world, and go to the Father.

John 17:13But now I come to thee, and I speak these things in the world, that they have my joy fulfilled in themselves. (And now I come to thee, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they have my joy filled full within themselves.)

Matthew Henry on John 16:2-7

Persecution Foretold; The Expediency of Christ's Departure. 1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. 2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. 3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. 4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning,… Read the whole commentary →

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