John 16:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear `them' now;

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  • Mark 4:33 : 33 And with many such similes he was speaking to them the word, as they were able to hear,
  • John 14:30 : 30 I will no more talk much with you, for the ruler of this world doth come, and in me he hath nothing;
  • John 15:15 : 15 no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.
  • Acts 1:3 : 3 to whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God.
  • 1 Cor 3:1-2 : 1 And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ; 2 with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,
  • Heb 5:11-14 : 11 concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing, 12 for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what `are' the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food, 13 for every one who is partaking of milk `is' unskilled in the word of righteousness -- for he is an infant, 14 and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.

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  • John 16:13-20
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    13and when He may come -- the Spirit of truth -- He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;

    14He will glorify me, because of mine He will take, and will tell to you.

    15`All things, as many as the Father hath, are mine; because of this I said, That of mine He will take, and will tell to you;

    16a little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go away unto the Father.'

    17Therefore said `some' of his disciples one to another, `What is this that he saith to us, A little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, and, Because I go away unto the Father?'

    18they said then, `What is this he saith -- the little while? we have not known what he saith.'

    19Jesus, therefore, knew that they were wishing to ask him, and he said to them, `Concerning this do ye seek one with another, because I said, A little while, and you do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me?

    20verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become.

  • John 16:3-8
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    3and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.

    4`But these things I have spoken to you, that when the hour may come, ye may remember them, that I said `them' to you, and these things to you from the beginning I did not say, because I was with you;

    5and now I go away to Him who sent me, and none of you doth ask me, Whither dost thou go?

    6but because these things I have said to you, the sorrow hath filled your heart.

    7`But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you;

    8and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment;

  • John 14:25-26
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    25`These things I have spoken to you, remaining with you,

    26and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and remind you of all things that I said to you.

  • John 8:26
    76%

    26many things I have to speak concerning you and to judge, but He who sent me is true, and I -- what things I heard from Him -- these I say to the world.'

  • John 16:25-26
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    25`These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.

    26`In that day, in my name ye will make request, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father for you,

  • John 16:10-11
    2 verses
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    10and concerning righteousness, because unto my Father I go away, and no more do ye behold me;

    11and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world hath been judged.

  • John 14:16-20
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    16and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you -- to the age;

    17the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it doth not behold him, nor know him, and ye know him, because he doth remain with you, and shall be in you.

    18`I will not leave you bereaved, I come unto you;

    19yet a little, and the world doth no more behold me, and ye behold me, because I live, and ye shall live;

    20in that day ye shall know that I `am' in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you;

  • John 13:33
    73%

    33`Little children, yet a little am I with you; ye will seek me, and, according as I said to the Jews -- Whither I go away, ye are not able to come, to you also I do say `it' now.

  • John 14:28-30
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    73%

    28ye heard that I said to you -- I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said -- I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

    29`And now I have said `it' to you before it come to pass, that when it may come to pass, ye may believe;

    30I will no more talk much with you, for the ruler of this world doth come, and in me he hath nothing;

  • John 3:11-12
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    72%

    11`Verily, verily, I say to thee -- What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive;

    12if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe?

  • John 16:22
    72%

    22`And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you,

  • John 15:26-27
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    72%

    26`And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;

    27and ye also do testify, because from the beginning ye are with me.

  • John 16:1
    71%

    1`These things I have spoken to you, that ye may not be stumbled,

  • John 13:36
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    36Simon Peter saith to him, `Sir, whither dost thou go away?' Jesus answered him, `Whither I go away, thou art not able now to follow me, but afterward thou shalt follow me.'

  • Luke 12:12
    70%

    12for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in that hour what it behoveth `you' to say.'

  • John 8:21-22
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    21therefore said Jesus again to them, `I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.'

    22The Jews, therefore, said, `Will he kill himself, because he saith, Whither I go away, ye are not able to come?'

  • John 7:34
    69%

    34ye will seek me, and ye shall not find; and where I am, ye are not able to come.'

  • John 16:32-33
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    32and now it hath come, that ye may be scattered, each to his own things, and me ye may leave alone, and I am not alone, because the Father is with me;

    33these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage -- I have overcome the world.'

  • John 17:13
    69%

    13`And now unto Thee I come, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves;

  • 1 Cor 3:2
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    2with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,

  • John 6:60
    69%

    60many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, `This word is hard; who is able to hear it?'

  • John 7:36
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    36what is this word that he said, Ye will seek me, and ye shall not find? and, Where I am, ye are not able to come?'

  • John 16:29
    68%

    29His disciples say to him, `Lo, now freely thou dost speak, and no similitude speakest thou;

  • John 15:4
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    4remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.

  • 3 John 1:13
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    13Many things I had to write, but I do not wish through ink and pen to write to thee,