John 16:1-7 ▼

1 [Jesus continued,] |I have said these things to you so that you won't lose your faith.

2 You will be thrown out of synagogues. Certainly, the time is coming when people who murder you will think that they are serving God.

3 They will do these things to you because they haven't known the Father or me.

4 But I've told you this so that when it happens you'll remember what I've told you. I didn't tell you this at first, because I was with you.

5 |Now I'm going to the one who sent me. Yet, none of you asks me where I'm going.

6 But because I've told you this, you're filled with sadness.

7 However, I am telling you the truth: It's good for you that I'm going away. If I don't go away, the helper won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.