John 16:1-19 ▼

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

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

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

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

7 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 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 go away to My Father, and you behold Me no more;

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

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

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

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

19 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?