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John 16:13
13But the Spirit will come. He is the one who shows people true things about God. When he comes, he will be a guide to you. He will help you to understand everything that is true. He will not speak on his own authority. He will tell you only what he hears from the Father. He will tell you about things that will happen after this time.
John 16:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
- New International Version (NIV)But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
- English Standard Version (ESV)When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
- New King James Version (NKJV)However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
Context of John 16:13
11They are wrong about how God judges people, because God has already judged Satan, the ruler of this world. 12I have many more things to tell you. But you are not strong enough to know them now. But the Spirit will come. He is the one who shows people true things about God. When he comes, he will be a guide to you. He will help you to understand everything that is true. He will not speak on his own authority. He will tell you only what he hears from the Father. He will tell you about things that will happen after this time. 14He will take my message and he will tell it to you. In that way, he will give me honour. 15Everything that the Father has is mine. That is why I said, “The Spirit will take what is mine and then he will tell it to you.” ’
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ὅταν δὲ ἔλθῃ ἐκεῖνος, τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας, ὁδηγήσει ὑμᾶς ἐν τῇ ἀληθείᾳ πάσῃ. οὐ γὰρ λαλήσει ἀφ᾽ ἑαυτοῦ, ἀλλ᾽ ὅσα ἀκούσει λαλήσει καὶ τὰ ἐρχόμενα ἀναγγελεῖ ὑμῖν.Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Howbeitδέde · thenG1161
- whenὅτανhotan · when(-ever)G3752
- heἐκεῖνοςekeinos · thatG1565
- the Spirit ofὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
- the Spirit ofπνεῦμαpneuma · spirit/breath: spiritG4151
- truthἀλήθειαalētheia · truthG225
- is comeἔρχομαιerchomai · to come/goG2064
- he will guideὁδηγέωhodēgeō · to guideG3594
- youσύsu · youG4771
- intoεἰςeis · towardG1519
- allπᾶςpas · allG3956
- forγάρgar · forG1063
- he shallλαλέωlaleō · to speakG2980
- notοὐou · noG3756
- ofἀπόapo · away fromG575
- himselfἑαυτοῦheautou · themselfG1438
- butἀλλάalla · butG235
- whatsoeverὅσοςhosos · just as/how muchG3745
- ·ἄνan · ifG302
- he shall hearἀκούωakouō · to hearG191
- andκαίkai · andG2532
- he will shewἀναγγέλλωanaggellō · to reportG312
Cross-references for John 16:13
- John 14:17He is God's Spirit and he shows you what is true. The people who belong to this world cannot receive him. That is because they cannot see him. They cannot know who he is. But you know him because he stays with you. And he will be in you.
- John 15:26When I return to my Father, I will send the Helper to you. The Helper is God's Spirit who speaks only true things. He comes to you from the Father. I will send him to you and he will speak true things about me.
- 1 John 4:6But we belong to God. Everyone who knows God believes our message. But anyone who does not belong to God does not believe it. So that is how we know if someone's message comes from God's Spirit or not. God's Spirit brings us a true message, but false spirits tell lies.
- John 14:26But the Father will send the Holy Spirit to be with you. He will be your Helper. He will come in my name, and he will teach you all things. He will help you to remember everything that I have told you.
- 1 Corinthians 2:10But God has sent his Spirit to show these secrets to us. God's Spirit looks carefully into everything. He even knows God's secret thoughts.
- Ephesians 4:7But God has been kind to all of us. Each of us has received a special gift, just as Christ has decided to give us.
- 1 John 2:20But Christ, the Holy One, has given you the Holy Spirit. As a result, you all know what is true.
- John 3:32He tells people about the things that he has seen. He tells about what he has heard. But people do not believe his message.
- John 7:16Jesus answered, ‘What I teach does not come from me. No, it comes from the one who sent me.
- John 8:38I speak about the things that my Father has shown me. You do the things that you have heard from your father.’
- John 12:49The words that I have spoken did not come from me myself. They came from the Father, who sent me. He told me what message I must speak. He told me the words I must say.
- Joel 2:28After that, I will pour out my Holy Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will be prophets. Your old men will dream and your young men will see pictures in their minds. (The Lord will send these to them.)
- Acts 2:17God says “This is what I will do in the last days. I will give my Spirit to all people. Your sons and daughters will speak my message to people. Your young men will see visions in their minds. And your old men will see things in their dreams.
- Acts 11:28One of these men was called Agabus. The Holy Spirit gave him a message from God. He stood up and he said to the people there, ‘Soon people will be very hungry all over the world because there will be no food.’ (That happened when Claudius ruled the Roman world.)
- Acts 20:23But I do know that much trouble will come to me. The Holy Spirit has told me about that. He said to me, “People will put you in prison and they will hurt you.”
- Acts 21:9He had four daughters who were not married. They spoke messages from God.
Commentaries on John 16:13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13He will guide you - He will consider your feeble infant state; and, as a father leads his child by the hand, so will the Holy Spirit lead and guide you. The Vulgate, and some copies of the Itala, read, He will Teach you all truth; but this and more is implied in the word ̔, he will lead; besides, this reading is not acknowledged by any Greek MS. He shall not speak of himself - He shall teach nothing contrary to what I have taught you: But whatsoever he…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13The Spirit of truth - So called because he would teach them all necessary truth. Will guide you into all truth - That is, truth which pertained to the establishment of the Christian system, which they were not then prepared to hear. We may here remark that this is a full promise that they would be inspired and guided in founding the new church; and we may observe that the plan of the Saviour was replete with wisdom. Though they had been long with him, yet…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-15Verses 7-15 Christ's departure was necessary to the Comforter's coming. Sending the Spirit was to be the fruit of Christ's death, which was his going away. His bodily presence could be only in one place at one time, but his Spirit is every where, in all places, at all times, wherever two or three are gathered together in his name. See here the office of the Spirit, first to reprove, or to convince. Convincing work is the Spirit's work; he can do it…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13The Spirit of truth, who brings truth from God, guides the judgment of the world. The Spirit speaks only what he hears from the Father. The Father, Son, and Spirit work in perfect unity (16:15). The disciples could expect the Spirit to reveal new things about the present and future (see 14:26).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 12-1512-15. when he, the Spirit of truth, is come ... he shall not speak of himself--that is, from Himself, but, like Christ Himself, "what He hears," what is given Him to communicate. he will show you things to come--referring specially to those revelations which, in the Epistles partially, but most fully in the Apocalypse, open up a vista into the Future of the Kingdom of God, whose horizon is the everlasting hills.Read the comment
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Commentaries on John 16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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