Sorrow hath filled (η λυπη πεπληρωκεν). This word is not used of Jesus in the Gospels, in John only in this chapter. Perfect activ…

Now I go my way. Now I am about to die and leave you, and it is proper to announce all these things to you.

None of you asks me.…

Sorrow hath filled your heart.—The thought of their own separation from Him, and of the dark future which lay before them, so filled their…

But now I go my way to him that sent me: and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou? But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow h…

St. John Chrysostom: The disciples, not yet perfected and being overcome by sorrow, were rebuked and corrected by our Lord. He…

The statement “none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ ” seems incongruous in the context of Peter’s question in the earlier part of the discou…

But because I have said these things to you
Of being hated and persecuted by the Jews, of being put out of their syn…

Our Lord Jesus, by giving His disciples notice of trouble, intended that the terror would not surprise them. It is possible for those who are real …

1. Previously, our Lord addre ed what would console His disciples in their coming troubles. Here, He deals with what will console them about…