John 16:1-7 ▼

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;