John 16:12

12 I have yet many thinges to saye vnto you: but ye canot beare them awaye now.

John 16:12 Meaning and Commentary

John 16:12

I have yet many things to say unto you
Not with respect to the main doctrines of the Gospel, for everything of this kind he had made known unto them, ( John 15:15 ) ; but what regarded the rejection of the Jews, and the calling of the Gentiles, the abrogation of the Mosaic economy, and settling the Gospel church state, which were to come to pass after the death and resurrection of Christ, and the sending of the Spirit:

but ye cannot bear them now;
because of their prejudices in favour of their own nation, the law of Moses, and the ceremonies of it, and the setting up of a temporal kingdom.

John 16:12 In-Context

10 Of rightwesnes because I go to my father and ye shall se me no moare:
11 and of iudgement because the chefe ruler of this worlde is iudged all ready.
12 I have yet many thinges to saye vnto you: but ye canot beare them awaye now.
13 How be it when he is come (I meane the sprete of truthe) he will leade yon into all trueth. He shall not speake of him selfe: but whatsoever he shall heare that shall he speake and he will shewe you thinges to come.
14 He shall glorify me for he shall receave of myne and shall shewe vnto you.
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