John
16
- "All this I have told you so that you
will not go astray.
- They will put you out of the synagogue;
in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering
a service to God.
- They will do such things because they have
not known the Father or me.
- I have told you this, so that when the time
comes you will remember that I warned you. I did not tell you this at first
because I was with you.
- "Now I am going to him who sent me,
yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going ?'
- Because I have said these things, you are
filled with grief.
- But I tell you the truth: It is for your
good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to
you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
- When he comes, he will convict the world
of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment:
- in regard to sin, because men do not believe
in me;
- in regard to righteousness, because I am
going to the Father, where you can see me no longer;
- and in regard to judgment, because the prince
of this world now stands condemned.
- "I have much more to say to you, more
than you can now bear.
- But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes,
he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak
only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
- He will bring glory to me by taking from
what is mine and making it known to you.
- All that belongs to the Father is mine.
That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known
to you.
- "In a little while you will see me
no more, and then after a little while you will see me."
- Some of his disciples said to one another,
"What does he mean by saying, 'In a little while you will see me no more,
and then after a little while you will see me,' and'Because I am going to
the Father' ?"
- They kept asking, "What does he mean
by'a little while'? We don't understand what he is saying."
- Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about
this, so he said to them, "Are you asking one another what I meant when
I said, 'In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little
while you will see me' ?
- I tell you the truth, you will weep and
mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn
to joy.
- A woman giving birth to a child has pain
because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish
because of her joy that a child is born into the world.
- So with you: Now is your time of grief,
but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your
joy.
- In that day you will no longer ask me anything.
I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
- Until now you have not asked for anything
in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
- "Though I have been speaking figuratively,
a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will
tell you plainly about my Father.
- In that day you will ask in my name. I am
not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.
- No, the Father himself loves you because
you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
- I came from the Father and entered the world;
now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father."
- Then Jesus' disciples said, "Now you
are speaking clearly and without figures of speech.
- Now we can see that you know all things
and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes
us believe that you came from God."
- "You believe at last!" Jesus answered.
- "But a time is coming, and has come,
when you will be scattered, each to his own home. You will leave me all alone.
Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me.
- "I have told you these things, so that
in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart!
I have overcome the world."
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