John 16:12

John 16:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
• New International Version (NIV)“I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

Context of John 16:12

10concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer; 11and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned. “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you what is to come. 14He will glorify me, because he will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

John 16:12 word by word

Ἔτι πολλὰ ἔχω ὑμῖν λέγειν, ἀλλ᾽ οὐ δύνασθε βαστάζειν ἄρτι.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• I haveἔχωechō · to have/beG2192
• yetἔτιeti · stillG2089
• many thingsπολύςpolus polos · muchG4183
• to sayλέγωlegō · to sayG3004
• unto youσύsu · youG4771
• butἀλλάalla · butG235
• ·οὐou · noG3756
• ye cannotδύναμαιdunamai · be ableG1410
• bearβαστάζωbastazō · to carryG941
• nowἄρτιarti · nowG737

Cross-references for John 16:12

• John 14:30I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,
• John 15:15I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.
• Acts 1:3To the same apostles also, after his suffering, he presented himself alive with many convincing proofs. He was seen by them over a forty-day period and spoke about matters concerning the kingdom of God.
• Mark 4:33So with many parables like these, he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear.
• 1 Corinthians 3:1So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
• Hebrews 5:11On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

Commentaries on John 16:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Ye cannot bear them now - In illustration of these three points, Christ had many things to say; but he found that his disciples could only bear general truths; yet, in saying what he did, he sowed the seeds of the whole system of theological knowledge, and heavenly wisdom, which the Holy Spirit of this truth afterwards watered and ripened into a glorious harvest of light and salvation, by the ministry of the apostles. Dr. Lightfoot supposes that the…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12I have yet many things to say … - There were many things pertaining to the work of the Spirit and the establishment of religion which might be said. Jesus had given them the outline; he had presented to them the great doctrines of the system, but he had not gone into details. These were things which they could not then bear. They were still full of Jewish prejudices, and were not prepared for a full development of his plans. He probably refers here to the…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
• 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

Topics related to John 16:12

• Holy Spirit
• Jesus Continued
• Neophytes

In the dictionaries

• Apostle
• Desirous
• Holy Ghost
• Reprove
• Sure
• Tribulation
• Atonement
• Authority in Religion
• Blasphemy
• Christ, Offices of

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