John 16:12 Cross References

John 16:12

12: "Oh, there is so much more I want to tell you, but you can't bear it now.

Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn't talk to you as I would to mature Christians. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in the Christian life.
I had to feed you with milk and not with solid food, because you couldn't handle anything stronger. And you still aren't ready,

He used many such stories and illustrations to teach the people as much as they were able to understand.

During the forty days after his crucifixion, he appeared to the apostles from time to time and proved to them in many ways that he was actually alive. On these occasions he talked to them about the Kingdom of God.

I no longer call you servants, because a master doesn't confide in his servants. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.

There is so much more we would like to say about this. But you don't seem to listen, so it's hard to make you understand.
You have been Christians a long time now, and you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things a beginner must learn about the Scriptures. You are like babies who drink only milk and cannot eat solid food.
And a person who is living on milk isn't very far along in the Christian life and doesn't know much about doing what is right.
Solid food is for those who are mature, who have trained themselves to recognize the difference between right and wrong and then do what is right.

"I don't have much more time to talk to you, because the prince of this world approaches. He has no power over me,

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