John 16:7

I tell you the truth -I" is again emphatic; -I who know, and who have never misled you." Comp. John 14:2.

It is expedient So Caiaphas had said (John 11:50) with more truth than he knew; so also the taunt at the crucifixion, -Himself He cannot save." -That" here = -in order that" (S. John's favourite particle, ἴνα). Comp. John 16:2 and John 12:43.

I go away There are three different Greek verbs in John 16:5; John 16:7; John 16:10, and our translators have not been happy in distinguishing them. The verb in John 16:5; John 16:10should be I go away: here for -I go away" we should have I depart, and for -I depart" we should have I go My way. In the first the primary idea is withdrawal; in the second, separation; in the third, going on to a goal.

the Comforter The Advocate (see on John 14:16). The Spirit could not come until God and man had been made once more at one. In virtue of His glorified and ascended Manhood Christ sends the Paraclete. -Humanity was to ascend to heaven before the Spirit could be sent to humanity on earth."