John 16

1 “I have told you these things so that you will not fall away.

“These things I have spoken to you, that you may not be stumbled.

2 They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

They will put you out of the synagogues, but an hour comes that everyone who has killed you may think to offer service to God;

3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.

and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor Me.

4 But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

But these things I have spoken to you, that when the hour may come, you may remember them, that I said [them] to you, and I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you;

5 Now, however, I am going to Him who sent Me; yet none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’

and now I go away to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, To where do you go?

6 Instead, your hearts are filled with sorrow because I have told you these things.

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

7 But I tell you the truth, it is for your benefit that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come to you, and if I go on, I will send Him to you;

8 And when He comes, He will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment:

and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment;

9 in regard to sin, because they do not believe in Me;

concerning sin indeed, because they do not believe in Me;

10 in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me;

and concerning righteousness, because I go away to My Father, and you behold Me no more;

11 and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world has been condemned.

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

12 I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it.

I have yet many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear [them] now;

13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.

and when He may come—the Spirit of truth—He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;

14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.

He will glorify Me, because He will take of Mine, and will tell to you.

15 Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you.

All things, as many as the Father has, are Mine; because of this I said that He will take of Mine, and will tell to you;

16 In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me.”

a little while, and you do not behold Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me, because I go away to the Father.”

17 Then some of His disciples asked one another, “Why is He telling us, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”

Therefore [some] of His disciples said to one another, “What is this that He says to us, A little while, and you do not behold Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me, and, Because I go away to the Father?”

18 They kept asking, “Why is He saying, ‘a little while’? We do not understand what He is saying.”

They said then, “What is this He says—the little while? We have not known what He says.”

19 Aware that they wanted to question Him, Jesus said to them, “Are you asking one another why I said, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’?

Jesus, therefore, knew that they were wishing to ask Him, and He said to them, “Concerning this do you seek with one another, because I said, A little while, and you do not behold Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me?

20 Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.

Truly, truly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will become joy.

21 A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.

The woman, when she may bear, has sorrow, because her hour came, and when she may bear the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born into the world.

22 So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.

And you, therefore, now indeed have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart will rejoice, and no one takes your joy from you,

23 In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Truly, truly, I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

and in that day you will question nothing of Me; truly, truly, I say to you, as many things as you may ask of the Father in My Name, He will give you;

24 Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

until now you asked nothing in My Name; ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

25 I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

I have spoken these things in allegories to you, but there comes an hour when I will no longer speak to you in allegories, but will tell you freely of the Father.

26 In that day you will ask in My name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

In that day you will make request in My Name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father for you,

27 For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.

for the Father Himself cherishes you, because you have cherished Me, and you have believed that I came forth from God;

28 I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”

I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world; again I leave the world, and go on to the Father.”

29 His disciples said, “See, now You are speaking plainly and without figures of speech.

His disciples say to Him, “Behold, now You speak freely, and You do not speak allegory;

30 Now we understand that You know all things and that You have no need for anyone to question You. Because of this, we believe that You came from God.”

now we have known that You have known all things, and have no need that anyone questions You; in this we believe that You came forth from God.”

31 “Do you finally believe?” Jesus replied.

Jesus answered them, “Now do you believe? Behold, there comes an hour,

32 “Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

and now it has come, that you may be scattered, each to his own things, and you may leave Me alone, and I am not alone, because the Father is with Me;

33 I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”

these things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace, in the world you will have tribulation, but take courage—I have overcome the world.”