John 16:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs:c but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. ”

• John 16:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  In proverbs - In a manner that appears obscure, enigmatical, and difficult to be understood. It is worthy of remark, that though his declarations in these chapters about his death and resurrectio...

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• John 16:25 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (7) These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. (7) The Holy Spirit, who was po...

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• John 16:25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  John 16. There is no break between chs. 15 and 16. Jesus has told them beforehand, so that His death and their suffering may not daunt their faith, as the Baptist was offended by the course of the...

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• John 16:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  proverbs . Greek. paroimia, . wayside saying. Occurs five times: here (twice); John 16:29 ; John 10:6 (parable); and 2 Peter 2:22 . In the Septuagint it is found in Proverbs 1:1 and at the ti...

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• John 16:25 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  25. These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The intention of Christ is to give courage to his disciples, that, entertaining good hopes of making better progress, they may not think th...

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• John 16:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. In Proverbs - That is, words which,...

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• John 16:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  I shall shew you plainly of the Father.— I will then make a free, open, and full discovery of my Father; of his gracious counsels concerning the church; of the nature and design of my sufferings an...

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• John 16:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. These things have I spoken u...

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• John 16:25 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Resurrection and Ascension of Christ Will Prove the Disciples' Comfort in Time of Persecution 1-6. The Persecution of the Apostles predicted. This section repeats many of the ideas of the prev...

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• John 16:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs. — Better, as in the margin,... in parables. So in the second clause of the verse and in John 16:29 . (Comp. Note on John 10:6 .) “These things”...

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• John 16:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XV. LAST WORDS. "A little while, and ye behold Me no more; and again a little while, and ye shall see Me. Some of His disciples therefore said one to another, What is this that He saith unto us...

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• John 16:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Good Cheer for Hours of Trial John 16:25-33 God still speaks to us in proverbs. We could not understand or receive the perfect discovery of Himself. These are but part of His ways, Job 26:14 ....

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• John 16:25 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Throughout these discourses our Lord was preparing His disciples for all that He saw coming to them. He told them that they would have sorrow resulting from their suffering. Because of this, it was n...

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• John 16:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shew it unto you. (16) A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see...

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• John 16:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs ,.... Concerning his Father, and his Father's house, and the many mansions in it, of his going to prepare a place for them there, and of the way unto...

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• John 16:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. Ver. 25. These things have I spo...

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• John 16:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  These things Though very weighty and important; have I spoken unto you in proverbs In the obscurity of parables, which have appeared dark and mysterious to you; but the time cometh , &c. You...

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• John 16:25 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  All that the Lord spoke on that memorable night was intended for the preparation of His disciples for what would face them in view of His death, resurrection and return to the glory. There would be s...

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• John 16:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Encouragement to Prayer.       23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Fa...

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• John 16:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  That by proverbs is meant any dark sayings, is plain from the opposition in the text of that term plainly. Christ had spoken, though not all things, yet many things to them in dark phrases, and u...

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• John 16:25 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Warning and Assurance for the Future ( John 16:16-33 ). As the time for them to go to Gethsemane approaches Jesus now begins to prepare them for what is to happen there. They are to recognise that...

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• John 16:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 16:25 . Proverbs, or parables.—Such as the vine, the woman in travail, etc. The time cometh, etc .—The Spirit after Pentecost would guide them clearly into...

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• John 16:25 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 16:1 . These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. That you should not be scandalized when you are put to suffering on any account that you should not dread the offe...

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• John 16:25 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 16:1 . These things have I spoken, that ye should not be offended, so as to stumble and shrink back from the cause in which you are engaged. Expulsion from the synagogue was to a jew next to...

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• John 16:25 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And in that day ye shall ask Me nothing The characteristics of the Christian age I. COMPLETE REVELATION 1. The subject: the Father; His nature: God; His character: love; His purpose: salvati...

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• John 16:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION John 16:1-43 (c) The bitter issues of the hostility of the world . John 16:1 These things . What things? Primarily the explanation he had given of the opposition and hat...

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• John 16:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The prayer that never fails:

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• John 16:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  John 14:16 ; John 16:23 ; John 17:19 ; John 17:24 ; John 17:9 ; Romans 8:34

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