Bible Strands
John 14:30
I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me.
Berean Standard Bible
Follow its threads on the canvas →
Study note
Setting — Jesus speaks to his disciples during the upper room discourse, in the hours before his arrest. He has just told them he is revealing things beforehand so they will believe when they happen (v. 29).
The words — Οὐκέτι (oukēti, "no longer") marks a hard boundary: this is not a pause but a closing. The future tense of λαλήσω (laleō, "I will speak") makes it a declaration about what will not happen.
The thread — John 12:31 announces the prince of this world will be "cast out" at the cross; 1 John 5:19 states the whole world lies under the evil one's power; 1 John 4:4 counters that the one in the believer is greater than the one in the world.
Why it lands — The verse places the reader inside a binary: the prince is coming and has no claim on Jesus, but the claim on the reader is the real question. It strips away any assumption that Jesus' departure is a loss of power.
Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.
The Greek words
King James Version
Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
Cross-references
- 1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
- 1 John 4:4 You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
- John 12:31 Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out.
- Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
- Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
- Ephesians 2:2 in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
- 2 Corinthians 4:4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
- 1 Peter 2:22 “He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”
- Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.
- 1 John 3:5 But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.