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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)“There is so much more I want to tell you, but you can’t bear it now.

Context of John 16:12

10about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned. “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13But 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. 14He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known 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 say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me,
• John 15:15I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
• Acts 1:3After his suffering, he presented himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.
• Mark 4:33With many similar parables Jesus spoke the word to them, as much as they could understand.
• 1 Corinthians 3:1Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ.
• Hebrews 5:11We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand.

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