16:25
What does Jesus mean when He says He has been speaking figuratively? Maybe He means the stuff about “in a little while you will see me ...”. Whatever the case, a time was coming when He would speak plainly about His Father. Jesus would continue to speak to them through the Holy Spirit.
16:26
In that day there would be a much closer relationship between the disciples and the Father. They would have direct access to the Father. It would not be a matter of the disciples asking Jesus and Jesus then asking the Father. Note that they would ask in His name. The hearts of the disciples would be changed and they would be more Christlike, then they would ask of the Father in Jesus name.
16:27,28
This further stresses the change in relationship. Previously Jesus has spoken of the Father’s love for Him, now He speaks of the Father’s love for the disciples. Why does the Father love them? Because they loved Jesus and have believed that He comes from God.So there are two things to learn here. One is that loving Jesus means believing that He comes from the Father. Now when it says “love you because” it could mean that they receive the Father’s love because they believe. There is no question of earning the Father’s love, but if we want to receive the fullness of the Father’s love we need to believe. Or it could mean that the sign that the Father loves them is that they believe in Jesus, the belief is the fruit of the Father’s love.
Jesus came from the Father and is about to return to Him. This would mark a new phase in the disciple's life.
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