John 16

“I have told you these things so that you will not be caused to fall away.

They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers a service to God.

And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes, you remember that I told them to you. “And I did not say these things to you from the beginning because I was with you.

But now I am going to the one who sent me, and yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send it to you.

And when it comes, it will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment.

Concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;

concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you will see me no more;

concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

“I still have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them now.

But when it, the spirit of truth, comes, it will guide you in all truth, for it will not speak on its own, but whatever it hears, it will speak, and it will declare to you the things that are to come.

It will glorify me, for it will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you.

All things, whatever the Father has, are mine, therefore I said that it will take from what is mine and will declare it to you.

“A little while and you will see me no more, and again a little while, and you will see me.”

Therefore some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he is saying to us, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me,’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father?’”

So they kept saying to each other, “What is this that he is saying, ‘A little while?’ We do not know what he is saying.”

Jesus knew that they were wanting to ask him, and he said to them, “Are you asking one another about this, that I said, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?’

Truly, truly, I say to you, that you will cry and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be filled with sorrow, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

A woman, when she is giving birth, has pain because her hour has come; but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the distress, for the joy that a boy is born into the world.

So you also have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

And in that day you will not ask me anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father, he will give it to you in my name.

Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Now keep asking, and you will receive, so that your joy is made full.

“I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly of the Father.

In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf,

for the Father himself treats you as friends because you have befriended me, and have believed that I came from the Father.

I came from the Father and have come into the world. Now in turn, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

His disciples said, “See, now you are speaking plainly, and are not speaking in veiled language.

Now we know that you know all things, and do not need anyone to ask you a question. This is why we believe that you came from God.”

Jesus answered them, “Do you believe now?

Look! The hour is coming and has come that you will be scattered, each one for himself, and you will leave me alone, and yet I am not alone because the Father is with me.

I have told you these things so that, in union with me, you have peace. In the world you will have hardships, but have courage; I have overcome the world.”