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

16:2  "They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour comes for everyone who kills you to think that he offers 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 dwelt with you.

16:5  "But now I go to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, 'Where do You go?'

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 falls 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 received judgment.

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 will 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 belong to me; 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 does he mean, '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 said, "What does He say when He says, 'A little while'? We do not know what He refers to."

16:19  Jesus knew that they wished to question Him, and He said to them, "Do you deliberate 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 turn into joy.

16:21  "Whenever a woman begins 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 come 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 become full.

16:25  "These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; an hour comes 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 will leave the world again and going to the Father."

16:29  His disciples said, "Lo, now You speak plainly and do not use 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 comes, and has already come, for you to scatter, each to his own home, and to leave Me alone; and yet I find myself not alone, because the Father dwells 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."