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Text -- John 16:1-8 (NET)

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16:1 “I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away. 16:2 They will put put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God. 16:3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me. 16:4 But I have told you these things so that when their time comes, you will remember that I told you about them. “I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you. 16:5 But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me, ‘Where are you going?’ 16:6 Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you. 16:7 But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you. 16:8 And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong concerning sin and righteousness and judgment
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NET Notes: Joh 16:1 In Johannine thought the verb σκανδαλίζω (skandalizw) means to trip up disciples and cause them to f...

NET Notes: Joh 16:2 Jesus now refers not to the time of his return to the Father, as he has frequently done up to this point, but to the disciples’ time of persecut...

NET Notes: Joh 16:3 Ignorance of Jesus and ignorance of the Father are also linked in 8:19; to know Jesus would be to know the Father also, but since the world does not k...

NET Notes: Joh 16:4 This verse serves as a transition between the preceding discussion of the persecutions the disciples will face in the world after the departure of Jes...

NET Notes: Joh 16:5 Now none of the disciples asks Jesus where he is going, and the reason is given in the following verse: They have been overcome with sadness as a resu...

NET Notes: Joh 16:6 Or “distress” or “grief.”

NET Notes: Joh 16:7 Or “Helper” or “Counselor”; Grk “Paraclete,” from the Greek word παράκλητ&...

NET Notes: Joh 16:8 Grk “and concerning.”

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