Joh 16:7 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 7. It is expedient-that I go away ] In other places he had showed them the absolute necessity of his death for the salvation of men: see ; , . This he does not repeat here, but shows them that, by the order of God, the Holy Spirit cannot come to them, nor to the world, unless he first die; and consequently men cannot be saved but in this way.

‏ John 16:7

Verse 7. It is expedient-that I go away] In other places he had showed them the absolute necessity of his death for the salvation of men: see Mt 20:19; 26:2; Mr 9:31; 10:33, Lu 9:44; 18:32. This he does not repeat here, but shows them that, by the order of God, the Holy Spirit cannot come to them, nor to the world, unless he first die; and consequently men cannot be saved but in this way.