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With the experiences of the cross just a few hours away Jesus is sharing with His disciples some parting words. In many ways Jesus is utilizing these final moments to prepare these men for what He knew was coming: His arrest, trial, scourging, crucifixion, death, burial, resurrection, ascension to heaven, and the coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. All of these topics establish the backdrop for the subject matter covered in John 13 through 17.
In order to set the scene for where we presently are in John 16… At the close of John 14 Jesus and His crew have left the upper room — then at the opening of chapter 18 we’re told they exit the Temple, cross the Kidron Valley, and enter the Garden of Gethsemane.
For reasons I’ve established over the last two Sundays, it is my belief that by verse 5 of chapter 16 Jesus and His disciples are likely somewhere in the Temple precincts continuing the very discourse He began earlier that evening around the Passover table.
Though we’ll pick things up beginning with verse 5, in case you weren’t with us last Sunday, let’s get a running head-start with verse 1 of John 16, “These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service.
And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me. But these things I have told you, that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you of them. And these things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.”
John 16:5-7, “But now I go away to Him who sent Me (this being Jesus’ Father in heaven), and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’ (In light of the fact Peter and Thomas have asked this question earlier in the conversation, David Guzik observes, “Their previous asking was in the sense — what will happen to us when You leave, not in the sense Jesus meant here – what will happen to You when You leave.”)
But because I have said these things to you (the fact He would be leaving them soon), sorrow has filled your heart. (The disciples were filled with “sorrow” because they were only focused on the loss they’d experience through Jesus’ coming departure.)
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