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16:1  “I have told you these things so that you will not fall away.
16:2  They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who murders you will think he is offering a service to God.
16:3  They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.
16:4  But I have told you these things so that when their time comes, you may remember that I told them to you. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
16:5  “But now I am going away to him who sent me, and not one of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
16:6  Yet because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.
16:7  Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth: It is good for you that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
16:8  When he comes, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment:
16:9  about sin, because they do not believe in me;
16:10  about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me;
16:11  about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.
16:12  “I still have many things to tell you, but you cannot bear them now.
16:13  But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own, but whatever he hears he will speak. He will also declare to you what is to come.
16:14  He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
16:15  Everything the Father has is mine. This is why I said that he takes from what is mine and will declare it to you.
16:16  “In a little while you are not going to see me anymore, and again in a little while you will see me, because I am going away to the Father.”
16:17  Therefore some of his disciples asked one another, “What does he mean when he tells us, ‘In a little while you are not going to see me, and again in a little while you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going away to the Father’?”
16:18  So they kept asking, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We don’t understand what he’s saying.”
16:19  Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, “Are you trying to determine with one another what I meant by saying, ‘In a little while you are not going to see me, and again in a little while you will see me’?
16:20  Amen, Amen, I tell you: You will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice. You will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy.
16:21  A woman giving birth has pain, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of her joy that a person has been born into the world.
16:22  “So you also have sorrow now. But I will see you again. Your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
16:23  In that day you will not ask me anything. Amen, Amen, I tell you: Whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.
16:24  Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask, and you will receive, so that your joy may be made complete.
16:25  “I have told you these things using figurative language. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you using figurative language, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.
16:26  In that day you will ask in my name, and I am not telling you that I will make requests of the Father on your behalf.
16:27  For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
16:28  I came from the Father and have come into the world. Now I am going to leave the world and go to the Father.”
16:29  “Yes!” his disciples said. “Now you are speaking plainly and not using figurative language.
16:30  Now we know that you know everything and do not need to have anyone ask you anything. For this reason we believe that you came from God.”
16:31  Jesus answered them, “Now do you believe?
16:32  Listen, a time is coming, in fact it is here, when you will be scattered, everyone to his own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not going to be alone, because the Father is with me.
16:33  I have told you these things, so that you may have peace in me. In this world you are going to have trouble. But be courageous! I have overcome the world.”