I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world cometh: and he hath nothing in me;
Christ comforted Himself that though He went away, He would come again, a truth we need told again and again when grief clouds our faith. His departure to the Father is your advantage, not your loss, because the Father is greater than He.
AI summary
Commenting on John 14:28-31
30. Henceforth I will not talk much with you. By this word he intended to fix the attention of the disciples on himself, and to impress his doctrine more deeply on their minds; for abundance generally takes away the appetite, and we desire more eagerly what we have not in our possession, and delight more in the enjoyment of that which is speedily to be taken from us.
Verse 30. Will not talk much. The time of my death draws nigh. It occurred the next day. The prince of this world. . Cometh. Satan is represented as approaching him to try him in his sufferings, and it is commonly supposed that no small part of the pain endured in the garden of Gethsemane was from some dreadful conflict with the great enemy of man.