“But these things haue I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not vnto you at the beginning, because I was with you.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
16:4 I did not tell you these things at the beginning, because I was with you - To bear the chief shock in my own person, and to screen you from it.
Joh 16:4 These things I said not unto you at the beginning. He had made his instructions as they were prepared to receive them, lesson by lesson.