Joh_16:19. Jesus observes what they would ask (comp. Joh_6:6), and extracts from them (as one who knows the heart, Joh_2:25; see subsequently Joh_16:30) the inquiry, not, however, setting aside the point, which they had also introduced from His earlier discourse (
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