John 16:6

6 Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things.

John 16:6 in Other Translations

6 But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

6 But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

6 Instead, you grieve because of what I’ve told you.

6 Instead, the longer I've talked, the sadder you've become.

6 But because I have spoken these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

6 But because I've told you this, you're filled with sadness.

6 Yet, because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

6 Because I have said these things, you are filled with sadness.

John 16:6 Meaning and Commentary

John 16:6

But because I have said these things to you
Of being hated and persecuted by the Jews, of being put out of their synagogues, and of losing of their lives; and particularly of his departure from them, or the loss of his bodily presence:

sorrow hath filled your heart;
sorrow for his absence so possessed their minds, seized on all the powers and faculties of their souls, and engrossed all their thoughts, that it never entered into the heart of any of them, to inquire about the place he was going to, or the state he should enter upon; which had they had any right notions of, would have greatly contributed to have abated their sorrow, quieted their minds, made them easy under, and reconciled them unto, his departure from them.

John 16:6 In-Context

4 I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you,

5 but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

6 Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things.

7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.

8 When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment:

Cross References

• 1. ver 22