John 16:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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  • Matt 9:15 : 15 Jesus said to them,“The wedding guests cannot mourn while the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and then they will fast.
  • John 13:19 : 19 I am telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I am he.
  • John 14:29 : 29 I have told you now before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe.
  • John 17:12-13 : 12 When I was with them I kept them safe and watched over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be fulfilled. 13 But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.
  • Mark 13:23 : 23 Be careful! I have told you everything ahead of time.
  • Isa 41:22-23 : 22 “Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen! Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles, so we may examine them and see how they were fulfilled. Or decree for us some future events! 23 Predict how future events will turn out, so we might know you are gods. Yes, do something good or bad, so we might be frightened and in awe.
  • 2 Pet 1:14 : 14 since I know that my tabernacle will soon be removed, because our Lord Jesus Christ revealed this to me.
  • Acts 9:16 : 16 For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”
  • Matt 10:7 : 7 As you go, preach this message:‘The kingdom of heaven is near!’
  • Matt 24:25 : 25 Remember, I have told you ahead of time.
  • Mark 2:19 : 19 Jesus said to them,“The wedding guests cannot fast while the bridegroom is with them, can they? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they do not fast.
  • Luke 21:12-13 : 12 But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you, handing you over to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and governors because of my name. 13 This will be a time for you to serve as witnesses.
  • Acts 20:23-24 : 23 except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me. 24 But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.

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  • John 14:25-26
    2 verses
    82%

    25“I have spoken these things while staying with you.

    26But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and will cause you to remember everything I said to you.

  • John 16:25-26
    2 verses
    79%

    25“I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

    26At that time you will ask in my name, and I do not say that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

  • John 16:5-7
    3 verses
    79%

    5But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me,‘Where are you going?’

    6Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you.

    7But 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.

  • John 16:3
    79%

    3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

  • John 14:28-31
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    79%

    28You heard me say to you,‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

    29I have told you now before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe.

    30I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

    31but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.

  • John 16:14-20
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    77%

    14He will glorify me, because he will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

    15Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

    16In a little while you will see me no longer; again after a little while, you will see me.”

    17Then some of his disciples said to one another,“What is the meaning of what he is saying,‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me,’ and,‘because I am going to the Father’?”

    18So they kept on repeating,“What is the meaning of what he says,‘In a little while’? We do not understand what he is talking about.”

    19Jesus could see that they wanted to ask him about these things, so he said to them,“Are you asking each other about this– that I said,‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me’?

    20I tell you the solemn truth, you will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice; you will be sad, but your sadness will turn into joy.

  • John 16:12
    77%

    12“I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

  • John 16:1
    77%

    1“I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.

  • John 15:26-27
    2 verses
    76%

    26When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father– the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father– he will testify about me,

    27and you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

  • John 16:32-33
    2 verses
    75%

    32Look, a time is coming– and has come– when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.

    33I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage– I have conquered the world.”

  • John 13:19
    74%

    19I am telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I am he.

  • John 13:33
    73%

    33Children, I am still with you for a little while. You will look for me, and just as I said to the Jewish religious leaders,‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ now I tell you the same.

  • John 8:25-26
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    72%

    25So they said to him,“Who are you?” Jesus replied,“What I have told you from the beginning.

    26I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.”

  • John 14:18-20
    3 verses
    72%

    18“I will not abandon you as orphans, I will come to you.

    19In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.

    20You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

  • John 17:13
    72%

    13But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

  • John 12:16
    72%

    16(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)

  • John 16:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

    23At that time you will ask me nothing. I tell you the solemn truth, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

  • 2 Thess 2:5
    72%

    5Surely you recall that I used to tell you these things while I was still with you.

  • John 14:4
    72%

    4And you know the way where I am going.”

  • John 15:11
    71%

    11I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.

  • John 16:10
    71%

    10concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer;

  • John 17:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

    25Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

  • John 15:15
    71%

    15I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.

  • John 15:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20Remember what I told you,‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.

    21But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

  • John 6:64
    70%

    64But there are some of you who do not believe.”(For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

  • Matt 24:25
    70%

    25Remember, I have told you ahead of time.

  • John 14:16
    70%

    16Then I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever–

  • John 16:28
    70%

    28I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

  • Mark 13:23
    70%

    23Be careful! I have told you everything ahead of time.