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JohnChapter 16

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"I have told you all this so that you will not fall away.
They will expel you from the synagogues. In fact, the hour is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering worship to God.
They will do this because they have not known the Father or me.
But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes you will remember that I told you. I did not say this to you from the beginning, because I was with you.
But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'
Instead, because I have said these things, grief has filled your hearts.
Yet I am telling you the truth: it is for your good that I am going away. For if I do not go, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:
concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;
concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer;
concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.
I still have much to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak on his own; he will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are coming.
He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
All that the Father has is mine; that is why I said he takes what is mine and will declare it to you.
A little while, and you will no longer see me; and again a little while, and you will see me.
So some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean by this: 'A little while, and you will not see me; and again a little while, and you will see me,' and, 'because I am going to the Father'?"
They kept asking, "What is this 'little while' he speaks of? We do not know what he is talking about."
Jesus knew they wanted to question him, so he said to them, "Are you discussing among yourselves what I meant by saying, 'A little while, and you will not see me; and again a little while, and you will see me'?
Truly, truly, I tell you: you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn into joy.
When a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come. But when she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
So it is with you: now you have grief, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
On that day you will not ask me anything. Truly, truly, I tell you: whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.
Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
"I have spoken to you of these things in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
On 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 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 to the Father."
His disciples said, "See, now you are speaking plainly, without any figure of speech.
Now we know that you know everything, and that no one needs to question you. Because of this we believe that you came from God."
Jesus answered them, "Do you believe now?
Look, the hour is coming—it has already come—when you will all be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.
I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have trouble. But take heart: I have overcome the world."
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