16:1  "These things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept from stumbling.

16:2  "They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

16:3  "These things they will do because they have not known the Father or Me.

16:4  "But these things I have spoken to you, so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. These things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.

16:5  "But now I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, `Where are You going?'

16:6  "But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

16:7  "But I tell 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 Him to you.

16:8  "And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment;

16:9  concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me;

16:10  and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me;

16:11  and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

16:12  "I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear {them} now.

16:13  "But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.

16:14  "He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose {it} to you.

16:15  "All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose {it} to you.

16:16  "A little while, and you will no longer see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me."

16:17  {Some} of His disciples then said to one another, "What is this thing He is telling 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'?"

16:18  So they were saying, "What is this that He says, `A little while'? We do not know what He is talking about."

16:19  Jesus knew that they wished to question Him, and He said to them, "Are you deliberating together about this, that I said, `A little while, and you will not see Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me'?

16:20  "Truly, truly, I say to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but your grief will be turned into joy.

16:21  "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.

16:22  "Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one {will} take your joy away from you.

16:23  "In 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.

16:24  "Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.

16:25  "These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly of the Father.

16:26  "In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will request 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 forth from the Father.

16:28  "I came forth from the Father and have come into the world; I am leaving the world again and going to the Father."

16:29  His disciples *said, "Lo, now You are speaking plainly and are not using a figure of speech.

16:30  "Now we know that You know all things, and have no need for anyone to question You; by this we believe that You came from God."

16:31  Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe?

16:32  "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.

16:33  "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."