John 16:1-7 ▼

1 “These things I have spoken to you so that you will not be led into sin.

2 They will ban you from the synagogue, yet an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering a service to God.

3 These things they will do because they have not known the Father nor Me.

4 But these things I have spoken to you, so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. However, I did not say these things to you at the beginning, because I was with you.

5 “But now I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’

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

7 But I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I am leaving; for if I do not leave, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.