Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
Hereafter I will not talk much with you: - `I have a little more to say, but My work hastens apace, and the approach of the adversary will cut it short.'
For the prince of this world cometh (see John 12:31) - cometh with hostile intent, cometh for a last grand attack. Foiled in his first deadly assault, he had "departed" - but "till a season" only (see the note at Luke 4:13). That season is now all but come, and his whole energies are to be once more put forth-with what effect the next words sublimely express.
And hath nothing in me - nothing of his own in Me, nothing of sin on which to fasten as a ryghteous cause of condemnation: 'As the Prince of this world he wields his sceptre over willing subjects; but in Me he shall find no sympathy with his objects, no acknowledgment of his sovereignty, no subjection to his demand.' Glorious saying! The truth of it is the life of the world. (Hebrews 9:14; 1 John 3:5; 2 Corinthians 5:21.)