John 16:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

John 16:6 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 14:1
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
Luke 24:17
And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?
John 20:11-15
But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre, …
John 16:20-22
Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. …
Luke 22:45
And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

Christ dealt faithfully with his disciples when he sent them forth on his errands, for he told them the worst of it, that they might sit down and count the cost. He had told them in the chapter before to expect the world’s hatred; now here in these verses, I. He gives them a reason why he alarmed them thus with the expectation of trouble: These things have I spoken unto you, that you should not be…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6-7. But because I have said these things ... sorrow hath filled your heart--Sorrow had too much paralyzed them, and He would rouse their energies.