12I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. …
To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-15)As it was usual with the Old Testament prophets to comfort the church in its calamities with the promise of the Messiah ( Isa. 9:6 ; Mic. 5:6 ; Zech. 3:8 ); so, the Messiah being come, the promise of the Spirit was the great cordial, and is still. Three things we have here concerning the Comforter’s coming :-- I. That Christ’s departure was absolutely necessary to the Comforter’s coming, John 16:7…
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