John 16:1 Cross References - WPNT

¹ “I have spoken these things to you to avoid your being caused to stumble

⁶ And, blessed be whoever is not offended at Me!”

²¹ but he has no root in himself and is short-lived; for when trial or persecution comes because of the word, directly he is offended.

⁵⁷ So they were offended at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own house”.

¹⁰ And then many will be offended, and they will betray one another and will hate one another.

³¹ Then Jesus says to them: “All of you will be caused to stumble because of me this night, for it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered’. ³² But after I am raised I will go before you to Galilee.” ³³ Peter answered and said to Him, “Even if everyone else is caused to stumble because of you, I will never be caused to stumble”.

¹¹ I have spoken these things to you so that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

¹⁸ “When the world hates you, you can be sure that it has hated me first. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would be fond of its own. So because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, that’s why the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his owner.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. ²¹ Now they will do all of these things to you because of my name, in that they do not know the One who sent me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be having sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ The one who hates me hates my Father too. ²⁴ If I hadn’t done among them the works that no one else has done, they would not be having sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ However, this was so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’ ²⁶ “Now when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of the Truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify concerning me. ²⁷ And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

⁴ Now I have told you these things so that when the time comes you may remember that I told you about them; I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.

²¹ It is good not to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weakened.

¹⁰ for you to identify the things that really matter; that you may be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ,

⁸ also “a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense;” being disobedient to the Word, they stumble, to which, indeed, they were appointed.