John 13:33 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. ”

• John 13:33 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Little children - An expression of great tenderness, denoting his deep interest in their welfare. As he was about to leave them, he endeavors to mitigate their grief by the most tender expression...

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• John 13:33 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (4) Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. (4) The eternal glory will flow little by lit...

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• John 13:33 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  John 13:33 to John 17:26 . The Last Discourses and Prayer. Perhaps this is the best place to consider the general arrangement and character of the final discourses. They present the same problem...

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• John 13:33 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Little children . Greek teknion. App-108. Only occurance here, Galatians 1:4 ; Galatians 1:19 (where the reading is doubtful), and in John's first Epistle. a little while. Compare John 7:33...

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• John 13:33 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  33. Little children, yet a little while am I with you. As it was impossible that the disciples should not be deeply grieved at their Master’s departure, so he gives them early warning that h...

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• John 13:33 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. Little children - Or, rather, beloved children. Τε...

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• John 13:33 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. Little children, х teknia ( G5040 )]....

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• John 13:33 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Last Supper 1-17. The Supper and the Feet-washing. This supper is identified by almost all modern authorities with the Last Supper, which took place on Thursday night at Jerusalem ( Matthew 26...

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• John 13:33 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Little children, yet a little while I am with you. — The thought of His own glory brings with it the thought of their state of orphanage when He shall have departed from them, and He addresses them...

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• John 13:33 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  VIII. JESUS ANNOUNCES HIS DEPARTURE. "When therefore he was gone out, Jesus saith, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him; and God shall glorify Him in Himself, and straig...

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• John 13:33 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Sign and Seal of Discipleship John 13:31-38 It was a relief when the traitor was gone. The Lord could now speak freely of His love and of His approaching glory, expatiating on the shining t...

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• John 13:33 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  For a time our Lord now devoted Himself to His own, and in this connection we have the account of His washing the disciples' feet. The whole action was Eastern, and was the action of a slave: By what...

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• John 13:33 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. (32) If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightwa...

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• John 13:33 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Little children, yet a little while I am with you ,.... Christ having removed the scandal of his death, by observing, that both he and his Father would be glorified by it, begins more freely to open...

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• John 13:33 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. Ver. 33. Little children, yet a little while ]...

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• John 13:33 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Little children An expression intended to signify both their weakness and his tenderness and compassion; as if he had said, Ye whom I love with parental tenderness, and whom my heart pities under a...

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• John 13:33 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  WASHING HIS DISCIPLES' FEET (vs.1-17) We are brought now to consider the last hours of the Lord Jesus before the cross. No longer does He minister to the world, but to His own disciples, from cha...

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• John 13:33 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ's Departure Predicted.       31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified...

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• John 13:33 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Our Saviour's time of death being very nigh, (for it was the next day), he begins to speak of it to his disciples more freely and plainly, and to let them know that he, though now dying, bare a fathe...

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• John 13:33 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Path to Glory Which Jesus Must Tread Alone ( John 13:31-38 ). The opening two verses reflect Jesus' awareness of the pivotal nature of the situation. As He thought back to the glory which had...

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• John 13:33 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 13:31 . Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus saith, etc. —“Ye are not all clean,” Jesus had said; but now the traitor had gone, and a higher spiritual teach...

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• John 13:33 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 13:1 . Before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come. What now transpired was on the Tuesday, while at supper in the house of Simon. Judas was now rebuked before al...

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• John 13:33 - The Biblical Illustrator

  (See Dr. Maclaren’s sermon on John 7:33-34 ). Little Children. -- Needing I. CARE. II. INSTRUCTION. III. GUIDANCE. IV. PROTECTION. ( S. S. Times. ) Whither I go, ye cannot come … no...

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• John 13:33 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION IV. THE FINAL MANIFESTATIONS IN WORD AND ACTION OF THE LOGOS INCARNATE , EXPRESSING ITSELF ABSOLUTELY AND TO THE UTTERMOST AS LOVE . (Jn 13-21....

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• John 13:33 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Concerning Christ's Glorification. God glorified in the Son:

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• John 13:33 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 2:1 ; 1 John 4:4 ; 1 John 5:21 ; Galatians 4:19 ; John 12:35 ; John 12:36 ; John 14:19 ; John 14:4-6 ; John 16:16-22 ; John 7:33 ; John 8:21-24

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• John 13:33 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Ye cannot come — Not yet; being not yet ripe for it. John 7:34 .

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