• Jesus’ Warning

  • 1 “These things I have spoken to you so that you will not be led into sin.
  • 2 They will ban you from the synagogue, yet an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering a service to God.
  • 3 These things they will do because they have not known the Father nor Me.
  • 4 But these things I have spoken to you, so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. However, I did not say these things to you at the beginning, because I was with you.

  • The Holy Spirit Promised

  • 5 “But now I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’
  • 6 But because I have said these things to you, grief has filled your heart.
  • 7 But I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I am leaving; for if I do not leave, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
  • 8 And He, when He comes, will convict the world regarding sin, and righteousness, and judgment:
  • 9 regarding sin, because they do not believe in Me;
  • 10 and regarding righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you no longer are going to see Me;
  • 11 and regarding judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
  • 12 “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them at the present time.
  • 13 But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.
  • 14 He will glorify Me, for He will take from Mine and will disclose it to you.
  • 15 All things that the Father has are Mine; this is why I said that He takes from Mine and will disclose it to you.

  • Jesus’ Death and Resurrection Foretold

  • 16 “A little while, and you no longer are going to see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me.”
  • 17 So some of His disciples said to one another, “What is this that He is telling us, ‘A little while, and you are not going to see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’; and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?”
  • 18 So they were saying, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not know what He is talking about.”
  • 19 Jesus knew that they wanted to question Him, and He said to them, “Are you deliberating together about this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you are not going to see Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me’?
  • 20 Truly, truly I say to you that you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but your grief will be turned into joy!
  • 21 Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a child has been born into the world.
  • 22 Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one is going to take your joy away from you.

  • Prayer Promises

  • 23 And on that day you will not question Me about anything. Truly, truly I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you.
  • 24 Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.
  • 25 “These things I have spoken to you in figures of speech; an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
  • 26 On that day you will ask in My name, and I am not saying to you that I will request of the Father on your behalf;
  • 27 for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father.
  • 28 I came forth from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”
  • 29 His disciples *said, “See, now You are speaking plainly and are not using any figure of speech.
  • 30 Now we know that You know all things, and that You have no need for anyone to question You; this is why we believe that You came forth from God.”
  • 31 Jesus replied to them, “Do you now believe?
  • 32 Behold, an hour is coming, and has already come, for you to be scattered, each to his own home, and to leave Me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.
  • 33 These things I have spoken to you so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”