Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
I came out from the Father (echlqon ek tou patrov). Definite act (aorist), the Incarnation, with repetition of ek (out of), while in verse John 16:27 we have para tou patrov echlqon) with no practical distinction between ek and para in resultant idea.
Am come (elhluqa). Perfect active indicative of erxomai, as in John 18:37. The Incarnation is now a permanent fact, once only a blessed hope (John 11:27). His leaving the world and going to the Father does not set aside the fact of the Incarnation. Both afihmi (I leave) and poreuomai (I go) are futuristic present indicatives.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 16:28:
John 4:3
John 8:14
John 10:32
John 11:27
John 13:1
John 13:3
John 16:30
1 Timothy 1:15
1 John 2:8
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