John 16:1-18 ▼

1 “ I have spoken these things to you⁺ so that you⁺ should not fall away.

2 They will put you⁺ out of the synagogues; but an hour is coming that everyone having killed you⁺ will think he is offering a service to God.

3 And they will do these things because they do not know the Father nor Me.

4 But I have said these things to you⁺ so that when their hour might have come, you⁺ may remember that I said them to you⁺. Now I did not say these things to you⁺ from the beginning, because I was with you⁺.

5 But now I am going away to the One having sent Me, and none of you⁺ asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’

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

7 But I say to you⁺ the truth, it is profitable for you⁺ that I should go away. For unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you⁺; but if I go, I will send Him to you⁺.

8 And having come, He will convict the world concerning sin and concerning righteousness and concerning judgment:

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

10 and concerning righteousness, because I am going away to the Father and you⁺ see Me no longer;

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

12 I still have many things to say to you⁺, but you⁺ are not able to bear them now.

13 But when He, the Spirit of truth, shall come, He will guide you⁺ into all the truth. For He will not speak from Himself, but whatever He may hear, He will speak. And He will declare to you⁺ the things coming.

14 He will glorify Me, for He will take from that which is Mine and will declare it to you⁺.

15 All things, as many as the Father has, are Mine. Because of this, I said that He will take from that which is Mine and will declare it to you⁺.

16 A little while and you⁺ see Me no longer; and again a little while and you⁺ will look on Me.”

17 Therefore some of His disciples said to one another, “What is this that He says to us, ‘A little while and you⁺ do not see Me; and again a little while and you⁺ will look on Me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”

18 Therefore they were saying, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not know what He is saying.”