John 16:12 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹² I have still much to say to you, but you cannot bear it now.

³³ With many such parables Jesus used to speak to the people of his Message, as far as they were able to receive it;

³⁰ I shall not talk with you much more, for the Spirit that is ruling the world is coming. He has nothing in common with me;

¹⁵ I no longer call you 'servants,' because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have given you the name of 'friends,' because I made known to you everything that I learned from my Father.

³ With abundant proofs, he showed himself to them, still living, after his death; appearing to them from time to time during forty days, and speaking of all that related to the Kingdom of God.

¹ But I, Brothers, could not speak to you as men with spiritual insight, but only as worldly-minded-mere infants in the Faith of Christ. ² I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you were not then able to take it. No, and even now you are not able; you are still worldly.

¹¹ Now on this subject I have much to say, but it is difficult to explain it to you, because you have shown yourselves so slow to learn. ¹² For whereas, considering the time that has elapsed, you ought to be teaching others, you still need some one to teach you the very alphabet of the Divine Revelation, and need again to be fed with 'milk' instead of with 'solid food.' ¹³ For every one who still has to take 'milk' knows nothing of the Teaching of Righteousness; he is a mere infant. ¹⁴ But 'solid food' is for Christians of mature faith--those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish right from wrong.