John 13:19

From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he.

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WEBBE

From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he.

BSB

I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it comes to pass, you will believe that I am He.

KJV

Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.

ASV

From henceforth I tell you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am [he].

BBE

From this time forward, I give you knowledge of things before they come about, so that when they come about you may have belief that I am he.

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Ἀπ Ap᾽ From G575 ἄρτι arti now G737 λέγω legō I am telling G3004 ὑμῖν humin you G4771 πρὸ pro before G4253 τοῦ tou (the) G3588 γενέσθαι genesthai it comes to pass G1096 ἵνα ina so that G2443 πιστεύσητε pisteusēte you may believe G4100 ὅταν hotan when G3752 γένηται genētai it may happen G1096 ὅτι hoti that G3754 ἐγώ egō I myself G1473 εἰμι eimi am [He] G1510

The early church

"From this time," Christ adds, "I tell you before it come; that when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am He:" that is, I am He of whom the Scripture that preceded has just said, "He that eateth bread with me, shall lift up his heel upon me."
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Tractates on John
Now I tell you before it come, that when it is come, ye may believe that I am He, i. e. of whom that Scripture foretold.
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(Hom. Lxxii. 3) As the disciples were about to go forth and to suffer many things, He consoles them by promising His own assistance and that of others; His own, when He says, Happy are ye if ye do them; that of others, in what follows, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send, receiveth Me; and he that receiveth Me receiveth Him that sent Me.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 18–30

Our Lord had often spoken of his own sufferings and death, without such trouble of spirit as he now discovered when he spake of Judas. The sins of Christians are the grief of Christ. We are not to confine our attention to Judas. The prophecy of his treachery may apply to all who partake of God's mercies, and meet them with ingratitude. See the infidel, who only looks at the Scriptures with a desire to do away their authority and destroy their influence; the hypocrite, who professes to believe the Scriptures, but will not govern himself by them; and the apostate, who turns aside from Christ for a thing of naught. Thus mankind, supported by God's providence, after eating bread with Him, lift up the heel against Him! Judas went out as one weary of Jesus and his apostles. Those whose deeds are evil, love darkness rather than light.

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Jesus, The Christ

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.