John 16:4
Good News Translation
But I have told you this, so that when the time comes for them to do these things, you will remember what I told you. "I did not tell you these things at the beginning, for I was with you.

New Revised Standard Version
But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you about them. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

Contemporary English Version
I am saying this to you now, so that when the time comes, you will remember what I have said. I was with you at the first, and so I didn't tell you these things.

New American Bible
I have told you this so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you. “I did not tell you this from the beginning, because I was with you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But these things I have told you, that when the hour shall come, you may remember that I told you of them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But these things I have told you, that when the hour shall come, you may remember that I told you of them.

that when.

John 13:19 At present I tell you, before it come to pass: that when it shall come to pass, you may believe that I am he.

John 14:29 And now I have told you before it come to pass: that when it shall come to pass, you may believe.

Isaiah 41:22,23 Let them come, and tell us all things that are to come: tell us the former things what they were: and we will set our heart upon them and shall know the latter end of them, and tell us the things that are to come. . . .

Matthew 10:7 And going, preach, saying: The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Matthew 24:25 Behold I have told it to you, beforehand.

Mark 13:23 Take you heed therefore: behold, I have foretold you all things.

Luke 21:12,13 But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons, dragging you before kings and governors, for my name's sake. . . .

Acts 9:16 For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.

Acts 20:23,24 Save that the Holy Ghost in every city witnesseth to me, saying: That bands and afflictions wait for me at Jerusalem. . . .

2 Peter 1:14 Being assured that the laying away of this my tabernacle is at hand, according as our Lord Jesus Christ also hath signified to me.

because.

John 17:12,13 While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou gavest me have I kept: and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition: that the scripture may be fulfilled. . . .

Matthew 9:15 And Jesus said to them: Can the children of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast.

Mark 2:19 And Jesus saith to them: Can the children of the marriage fast, as long as the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

Context
Persecution Foretold
3And these things will they do to you; because they have not known the Father nor me. 4But these things I have told you, that when the hour shall come, you may remember that I told you of them. 5But I told you not these things from the beginning, because I was with you. And now I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me: Whither goest thou?…
Cross References
Luke 1:2
According as they have delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word:

John 13:19
At present I tell you, before it come to pass: that when it shall come to pass, you may believe that I am he.

John 16:3
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