约翰福音 14:29

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

現在事情還沒有發生，我就已經告訴你們，使你們在事情發生的時候可以相信。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
现 在 事 情 还 没 有 成 就 ， 我 预 先 告 诉 你 们 ， 叫 你 们 到 事 情 成 就 的 时 候 就 可 以 信 。

Contextual Overview

²⁸ You heard me say to you, ‘I am going, but I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you should be happy that I am going back to the Father, because he is greater than I am. ²⁹ I have told you this now, before it happens, so that when it happens, you will believe. ³⁰ I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me, ³¹ but the world must know that I love the Father, so I do exactly what the Father told me to do. "Come now, let us go.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 13:19, John 16:4-30, John 16:31, Matthew 24:24, Matthew 24:25

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 24:24 - when Matthew 28:7 - lo Mark 13:23 - behold Luke 19:30 - General John 14:25 - have John 19:35 - that ye

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And now I have told you before it came to pass,.... This is a strong proof of his true and proper deity, for none but the omniscient God can tell of things before they come to pass; this is peculiar to him, and distinguishes him from the gods of the Gentiles; see Isaiah 41:22;

that when it is come to pass, ye might believe: that is, that when he was removed from them, and gone to his Father, they might then believe that he was truly God, the Son of God, the promised Messiah; and that he was then in glory, and at the right hand of God.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Before it come to pass - Before my death, resurrection, and ascension.

Ye might believe - You might be confirmed or strengthened in faith by the evidence which I gave that I came from God - the power of foretelling future events.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 14:29. I have told you before it come to pass — Lest my death should be a stumbling-block to you, I have spoken of it beforehand, and showed you the necessity of it, that when it happens ye may believe, that as I could predict it so clearly, and so circumstantially, so all the good which I have promised shall be the result may be confidently expected by you; and that your sorrow, if not entirely removed, may at least be much mitigated.