28Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. …
Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. …
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 28-31)Christ here gives his disciples another reason why their hearts should not be troubled for his going away; and that is, because his heart was not. And here he tells them what it was that enabled him to endure the cross and despise the shame, that they might look unto him , and run with patience . He comforted himself, I. That, though he went away, he should come again: “You have heard how I have s…
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