Chapter 16

"These things I have spoken to you that you may not be scandalized.

They will expel you from the synagogues. Yes, the hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering worship to God.

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

But these things I have spoken to you, that when the time for them has come you may remember that I told you.

These things, however, I did not tell you from the beginning, because I was with you. The Rule of the Advocate "And now I am going to him who sent me, and no one of you asks me, 'Where art thou going? '

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

But I speak the truth to you; it is expedient for you that I depart. For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.

And when he has come he will convict the world of sin, and of justice, and of judgment:

of sin, because they do not believe in me;

of justice, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no more;

and of judgment, because the prince of this world has already been judged.

"Many things yet I have to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

But when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will teach you all the truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he will hear he will speak, and the things that are to come he will declare to you.

He will glorify me, because he will receive of what is mine, and will declare it to you.

All things that the Father has are mine. That is why I have said that he will receive of what is mine, and will declare it to you.

A little while and you shall see me no longer; and again a little while and you shall see me, because I go to the Father."

Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What is this he says to us, 'A little while and you shall not see, me and again a little while and you shall see me'; and, 'I go to the Father'? "

They kept saying therefore, "What is this ' little while' of which he speaks? We do not know what he is saying."

But Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "You inquire about this among yourselves because I said, 'A little while and you shall not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me. '

Amen, amen, I say to you, that you shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice; and you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

A woman about to give birth has sorrow, because her hour has come. But when she has brought forth the child, she no longer remembers the anguish for her joy that a man is born into the world.

And you therefore have sorrow now; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one shall take from you.

And in that day you shall ask me nothing. Amen, amen, I say to you, if you ask the Father anything in my name, he will give to you.

Hitherto you have not asked anything in my name. Ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.

"These things I have spoken to you in parables. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in parables, but will speak to you plainly of the Father.

In that day you shall ask in my name; and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father for you,

for the Father himself loves you because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.

I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again I leave the world and go to the Father."

His disciples said to him, "Behold, now thou speakest plainly, and utterest no parable.

Now we know that thou knowest all things, and dost not need that anyone should question thee. For this reason we believe that thou camest forth from God."

Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe?

Behold, the hour is coming, and has already come, for you to be scattered, each one to his own house, and to leave me alone. But I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

These things I have spoken to you that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have affliction. But take courage, I have overcome the world."