Matthew Poole and continuators on John 16:4

4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them . And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you .

Whatsoever I have discovered to you formerly, of my going to my Father, the coming of the Holy Ghost, your [illegible: 3 letters]fering from the World I have told you of before; you will see that they will most certainly come to pass: then you will remember what I have said unto you, and I have told you them on purpose, that you may remember them, and thereby know, that altho I am in the form of a man, yet I also am God blessed for ever: and did know things that should afterward come to pass, and could tell you the truth about them.

And having been with you, I have not from the first of your converse with me, told you these things; that is, those which relate to the Worlds dealing with you, (which he had told them Matth 10.16. &c. but that was after some good whiles converse with them) nor yet had he spoken to them at first about his Death, Resurrection, and Ascension, because he was with them, and to stay with them some time, during which time he bare the brunt of all; the whole hatred of the Iews was poured out upon him: and for those other things relating to his Death, and Ascension, and the sending of the Spirit; he who taught his Disciples, Mar. 4.33. as they were able to bear them, had concealed these things; till by his other Doctrine he had prepared them to receive this Revelation; and there was a necessity of his relieving them against his bodily absence, by the promise of that other Comforter the Holy Ghost.

Marginal references: Chap. 13.19. and 14.29.; See Matth. 9.15.