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The Pulpit Commentary - John 16:22

"I will see you again." The sympathy and the wisdom alike of our Lord's declarations and promises to his disciples upon the eve of his departure, command our warmest admiration. He both felt for those who were about to pass through a trial so severe, and he knew how to minister to their heart's necessities. What a knowledge of human nature is apparent in this simple bat most significant promise! I. THE OCCASIONS UPON WHICH THIS PROMISE WAS FULFILLED . 1. Upon our... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - John 16:23

And in that day —that long and blessed period beginning at the Resurrection with your vision of me, and being ever more and more enhanced in blessedness by your intense conviction that "I am with you" and "see you," though you see me not—in that day ye shall put me no question, as in the old method of confidential intercourse of man with man. That period passes away with this solemn night. Not in this way will the intercourse be carried forward. "That day" started from Easter morning, and... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - John 16:23-30

The consequences of Christ's ascension to the Father. I. Pulpiness OF KNOWLEDGE . "And in that day ye shall no more question me in anything." 1. Our Lord was always ready , in the days of his flesh , to answer the questions of his disciples . Yet their questions often showed 2. Hereafter there would be no need for further questioning ; for the Holy Spirit would solve all their difficulties. II. FULLNESS OF POWER . "Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - John 16:24

Hitherto —up to the present period— ye asked ( £ ἠτήσατε , the common word for petition and request made by the inferior to the superior, the man to his Maker) nothing in my Name . The disciples had not comprehended the fullness of that Name of the well-beloved Son, filling their minds with the revelation of God made in it, and feeling it to be the great inducement anti guarantee of acceptable prayer. Ask (continuously, habitually, for this is no longer in aorist, but in the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 16:24

The ground of successful prayer. The presence of the Lord Jesus in the land of his sojourn during his incarnate life made a great difference to many dwellers in that land. It made a great deal of difference in point of resource and hope to all suffering from afflicted bodies. And thus also Jesus brought a great change in the region of religious need and duty. He did not come into the midst of a laud all unused to prayer. The quality of the prayer may have been very defective, but there is... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - John 16:25

These things I have spoken to you in proverbs (see John 10:6 ); i.e. in concentrated and to some extent enigmatical utterances, "in dark sayings upon a harp," in words which subsequent events and higher enlightenment would interpret (cf. here Christ's distinction between his disciples and the multitude in the matter of parables, Matthew 13:1-58 .). He used the parable to the stupefied, that they might thus separate between those who were susceptible to his teaching and those who were... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - John 16:25-33

(d) The final conviction wrought that Jesus was what he had said that he was . The joy of Christ , with its note of warning . read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - John 16:26

In that day —pointing to "the hour" of these open declarations— ye shall ask ( make petitions , not ask or demand of me, in the tone of equality) in my Name . The opportunity will come when all my Name will be appreciated by you, and your spiritual reception of me will teach you to approach the Father, who is thus revealed to you. Calvin in these verses calls attention to the familiarity of Israel with the idea of a Mediator, one by whom they drew near to God, and that Christ... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - John 16:26-27

The Father's love. The time here referred to must be the dispensation of the Holy Spirit. A great purpose of the gift of the Comforter and the establishment of the Church on earth was that a new, intimate, and happy relation might be constituted uniting the eternal God by personal and spiritual bonds to those who, made in his image, should become by grace partakers of his character. I. THE OBJECTS OF THE FATHER 'S LOVE . The description given of such as the Father regards... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - John 16:27

For the Father himself loveth you ( φιλεῖ ), with love of a fatherly affection, such as mine to you, because ye have loved me (the perfect preterit, in the sense of the realized past in the present which shall then be), and have believed that I came forth from the side of ( παρὰ ) the Father . £ In their belief of this transcendent fact is the hope of the world. It was wrought in them by the strengthening pulses of a deepening love, and to this love God himself responds with a... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - John 16:22

The Pulpit Commentary - John 16:23

The Pulpit Commentary - John 16:23-30

The Pulpit Commentary - John 16:24

The Pulpit Commentary - John 16:24

The Pulpit Commentary - John 16:25

The Pulpit Commentary - John 16:25-33

The Pulpit Commentary - John 16:26

The Pulpit Commentary - John 16:26-27

The Pulpit Commentary - John 16:27

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