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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: For the Father himself teacheth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 show you plainly of the Father. At that day ye shalt ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: Though that is, indeed, what our Lord does.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: Though that be true,
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
At that day ye shall ask in my name,.... For when the Spirit was poured upon them, they not only received his extraordinary gifts, and had a larger measure of his grace bestowed upon them; but were also blessed with him, as a spirit of grace and supplication, in a more remarkable manner than ever they had been before: they then better understood...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the Father himself loveth you,.... The Father loved them as well, and as much as the Son did, and of himself too, without any merit or motive in them: he loved them from everlasting, and had given proofs of it in time, in the gift of his Son to them, and for them; and in calling them by his grace; and therefore being thus strongly affected to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the Father himself loveth you,- “The Father, whom you are so apt to think of as sterner than myself, and farther off than I, the Son of man am, ‘the Father himself loveth you,’”— Joh_16:27. Because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. Have you, dear friends, love to Christ? Do you believe that Christ came forth from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the Father himself loveth you, What a delightful little sentence! “The Father himself loveth you.” Joh_16:27. Because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. God’s first love to us is from himself alone. Then there is another love that grows in his heart because of our love to his Son. You love your child. The reason lies...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I came forth from the Father,.... This is the sum of what the apostle believed, and Christ, in these discourses of his, had been speaking of. This his coming forth from the Father is to be understood, not of his eternal filiation; nor of his coming forth in a way of grace towards his own people in the council and covenant of grace and peace; nor...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God. Jesus answered...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. Had he not clearly explained what he meant by being absent a little while, and then coming back again?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God. One does not...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
His disciples said unto him,.... Upon the above discourse of Christ, such rays and beams of light darted into the minds of the apostles, and things stood so clear in their view, and they so well understood what Christ had said, that they declare, lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb: what he had said before, were to them like...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. Did you never, when reading the Bible, come across a text, that was opened up to you so sweetly that you vied out just as these disciples did “Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. Now are we sure- Now they can give reasons for the hope that is in them. “Now are we sure”—
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now are we sure that thou knowest all things,.... Not only all men, but all things, even the secrets of men's hearts, of which the apostles had now a convincing proof; for whereas Christ had delivered some expressions, John 16:16; which they did not understand, and were desirous to ask him the meaning of, John 16:19; which he knowing, being God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God. Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? Listen, you who imagine that you are so strong in faith, and every grace, that you think you are almost perfect: “Do ye now believe?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God. They are very positive; but notice the check that our Lord put upon all this confident assurance.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Jesus answered them, do ye now believe?] Not as calling their faith in question; or as denying they had any; or as despising it for the smallness of it; but as reproving them for their security, vain confidence and boasting, as if their faith was so very strong that it would never be moved; and perhaps for the lateness of it too: the words may be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone. Whenever there is any boasting upon your lips, even though you may think that you can rightly say, “Now we are sure,” stop a bit, dear friends, stop a bit. We have not any of us all the good...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? He did not feel so sure of their faith as they did. We often think we have great heaps of the gold of faith; and it glitters very brightly, but it is not the precious metal after all. So Jesus said, “Do ye now believe?”