John 16:12
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
KJV
ἔτι πολλὰ ἔχω ὑμῖν λέγειν, ἀλλ’ οὐ δύνασθε βαστάζειν ἄρτι·
Greek NT
Adhuc multa habeo vobis dicere, sed non potestis portare modo.
Vulgate
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
ASV
I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
βαστάζω
bastazo
verb · 27×
δύναμαι
dunamai
verb · 209×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
πολύς
polus
adjective · 412×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἄρτι
arti
adverb · 33×
ἔτι
eti
adverb · 94×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ὑμῖν λέγειν | WH/Treg/NIV: ὑμῖν λέγειν | RP: λέγειν ὑμῖν
- ὑμῖν λέγειν — SBLGNT
- ὑμῖν λέγειν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- λέγειν ὑμῖν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
10 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 2 passages
§729Only when the hour has arrived for his glorification does Jesus promise the coming of the Holy Spirit, since his Death and Resurrection will fulfill the promise made to the fathers.116 The Spirit of truth, the other Paraclete, will be given by the Father in answer to Jesus' prayer; he will be sent by the Father in Jesus' name; and Jesus will send him from the Father's side, sin…
§1287This fullness of the Spirit was not to remain uniquely the Messiah's, but was to be communicated to the whole messianic people.93 On several occasions Christ promised this outpouring of the Spirit,94 a promise which he fulfilled first on Easter Sunday and then more strikingly at Pentecost.95 Filled with the Holy Spirit the apostles began to proclaim "the mighty works of God," a…
2. What then says the mouth of the apostles, Peter, the ever fervent, the leader of the apostolic choir? When all are asked, he answers. And whereas when He asked the opinion of the people, all replied to the question; when He asked their own, Peter springs forward, and anticipates them, and says, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. Matthew 16:16 What then says Chris…
Homilies on the Gospel of John · 2 passages
1. All things good then have their reward, when they arrive at their proper end, but if they be cut off midway, shipwreck ensues. And as a vessel of immense burden, if it reach not the harbor in time, but founder in the midst of the sea, gains nothing from the length of the voyage, but even makes the calamity greater, in proportion as it has endured more toils; so are those sou…
1. Great is the tyranny of despondency, and much courage do we need so as to stand manfully against the feeling, and after gathering from it what is useful, to let the superfluous go. It has somewhat useful; for when we ourselves or others sin, then only is it good to grieve; but when we fall into human vicissitudes, then despondency is useless. And now when it has overthrown t…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210201.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
2. But what means, according to the flesh? According to what is in sight; according to the life that now is; according to the discipline of the Gentiles. Then, lest he should seem to be at variance with himself, (for he had convinced both the Proconsul, Acts 13:12 and the Areopagite, Acts 17:34 and Apollos; Acts 18:26: through Aquila and Priscilla and other wise men, too, we ha…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 3:1 — And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
- 1Cor 3:2 — I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
- 2John 1:12 — Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full.
- Acts 1:3 — 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:
- Heb 5:11 — Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
- Heb 5:11 — Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
- John 8:26 — I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
- John 14:25 — These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
- John 14:30 — Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
- John 15:15 — 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.
- John 16:25 — These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.
- Mark 4:33 — And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
- Mark 4:33 — And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
- Matt 9:16 — No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.
- Matt 11:14 — And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.