"These things" refers to the comments Jesus has been making to His disciples. They have just shared the Last Supper (John 13:1–5), and Christ is giving His ...

The gracious words of the Lord Jesus are light and life, health and wholeness, truth and love, and they are words of great comfort for all His children.

Persecution can come from the hands of those who claim to know God but are wretchedly ignorant of the Father and the Son. I can have peace in ...

Concerning the world's hatred and persecution of them, and the little regard they would show to their doctrine: these things Christ thought, proper to give them ...

David Guzik commentary on John 16, where Jesus teaches the disciples for the last time and prepares them for what's to come.

1. The disciples of Christ are apt to be offended at the cross; and the offence of the cross is a dangerous temptation, even to good men, to turn back from the ...

Be offended - For the meaning of the word offend, see the notes at Matthew 5:29. It means here the same as to stumble or fall - that is, to apostatize. He ...

(i) Sorrow will turn to joy. There may be a time when it looks as if to be a Christian brings nothing but sorrow, and to be of the world brings nothing but joy.

"Through the Holy Spirit, the Believers relationship with Jesus can be the same, and no less intimate than the disciples in the days before the cross."