πολλὰ … λέγειν. They are His friends (John 15:15), and there is nothing which He wishes to keep back from them; He would give them His entire confidence. But it would be useless to tell them what they cannot understand; cruel to impart knowledge which would only crush them. Ἄρτι is emphatic (see on John 16:31): at Pentecost they will receive both understanding and strength to know even that ‘which passeth knowledge’ (Ephesians 3:19).

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