*And none of you asketh me: Whither goest thou?* Or: “And does none of you ask Me: Whither goest thou”? Our Lord probably remained silent for a few moments after announcing His departure, in order to see if anyone would question Him further about it. Since no one did, He mildly reminds them in the words before us, that they are not sufficiently solicitous to learn the things that concerned Him; but, as He goes on to say in verse 6, are too much occupied with their own sorrows. No doubt, Peter had already asked Him: “Lord, whither goest Thou?” (John xiii. 36); and Thomas had said: “Lord, we know not whither Thou goest; and how can we know the way?” (John xiv. 5), but they had not persevered in asking; and at present, when He is just about to depart, they put Him no questions about the glory that was before Him, or the nature of the kingdom that awaited Him. 6. Sed quia haec locutus sum 6. But because I have spoken vobis: tristitia implevit cor these things to you sorrow vestrum. hath filled your heart. 6. *These things* we again take, as in verses 1 and 5, to refer to the persecutions which He had predicted, and to the coming of the Holy Ghost _after His departure_. That there is not question merely of persecutions predicted, is proved by the next verse, in which He goes on, in immediate connection with this (_But_ I tell you the truth, it is expedient to you that I go) to reconcile them to His departure. For the same reason, there is not question merely of the coming of the Holy Ghost, since that was no cause for sorrow, but of His coming _in Christ’s place_. The prediction of persecution, and of the coming of the Holy Ghost as _implying the departure of Christ_, was what filled their hearts with sorrow. 7. Sed ego veritatem dico 7. But I tell you the truth: vobis: expedit vobis ut ego it is expedient to you that I vadam: si enim non abiero, go: for if I go not, the Paraclitus non veniet ad vos: Paraclete will not come to si autem abiero, mittam eum ad you: but if I go, I will send vos. him to you. 7. *But.* The meaning is: notwithstanding your silence (verse 5), or: notwithstanding your sorrow (verse 6), *I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go*. This expediency arose from the free disposition of the Divine economy that the Son of God should remove from among men His visible presence before the Holy Ghost should come. Nothing in the nature of things necessarily required this; but God freely decreed it so.