John 16:12
Good News Translation
"I have much more to tell you, but now it would be too much for you to bear.

New Revised Standard Version
“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

Contemporary English Version
I have much more to say to you, but right now it would be more than you could understand.

New American Bible
“I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now.

yet.

John 14:30 I will not now speak many things with you. For the prince of this world: cometh: and in me he hath not any thing.

John 15:15 I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends. because all things, whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.

Acts 1:3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion, by many proofs, for forty days appearing to them, and speaking of the kingdom of God.

ye.

Mark 4:33 And with many such parables, he spoke to them the word, according as they were able to hear.

1 Corinthians 3:1,2 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal. As unto little ones in Christ. . . .

Hebrews 5:11-14 Of whom we have much to say and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear. . . .

Context
The Promise of the Holy Spirit
11And of judgment: because the prince of this world is already judged. 12I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now. 13But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all truth. For he shall not speak of himself: but what things soever he shall hear, he shall speak. And the things that are to come, he shall shew you.…
Cross References
John 15:15
I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends. because all things, whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.

John 16:11
And of judgment: because the prince of this world is already judged.

John 16:13
But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all truth. For he shall not speak of himself: but what things soever he shall hear, he shall speak. And the things that are to come, he shall shew you.

1 Corinthians 3:2
I gave you milk to drink, not meat: for you were not able as yet. But neither indeed are you now able: for you are yet carnal.

John 16:11
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