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📚✭“I have said these things to you so that you will not stumble. 2 📚They will put you out of the synagogues✭. Yes, the time is coming when whoever kills you will think that he is doing God a service. 3 📚✭And they will do these things to you because they have not known the Father or me. 4 📚✭But I have told you these things so that when the time comes, you can remember that I told you about them. And I did not tell you these things at the beginning, because I was with you. 5 📚✭“But now I am going away to him who sent me, and none of you ask me, ‘Where are you going?’
The work of the Holy Spirit of God in the world
6 📚But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7 📚✭Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you. But if I go away, I will send him to you.
8 📚✭“And when he has come, he will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment; 9 📚✭of sin, because they do not believe in me; 10 📚✭of righteousness, because I go to my Father and you see me no more; 11 📚of judgment, because the ruler of this world✭ is judged.
12 📚✭“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 📚✭However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak on his own, but will speak only what he hears. And he will show you things to come.✭ 14 📚✭He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine and show it to you. 15 📚✭All things that the Father has are mine. Therefore I say that he will take from what is mine and make it known to you. 16 📚✭In a little while you will not see me, and then, in a little while you will see me, because I am going to the Father”.
Christ gives further comfort and promises
17 📚✭Then some of his disciples said among themselves, “What is this that he is saying to us, ‘In a little while you will not see me, and then, in a little while you will see me’, and, ‘Because I am going to the Father?’” 18 📚✭So they said, “What is this that he is saying, ‘In a little while?’ We don’t know what he is saying”.
19 📚Now Jesus, knowing that they wanted to ask him, said to them, “Are you asking among yourselves about what I said, ‘In a little while you will not see me, and then, in a little while you will see me?’ 20 📚✭Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice, and you will be pained, but your pain will be turned to joy. 21 📚✭A woman when she is giving birth has pain, because her time has come. But when she has brought forth the child, she no longer remembers the suffering, for joy that a man has been born into the world. 22 📚And so you now have pain. But I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and no man will take your joy from you.
23 📚✭“And in that day you will ask me nothing. Truly, truly I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name,✭ he will give it to you. 24 📚✭Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. 25 📚✭I have said these things to you in figurative language. But the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language but will tell you clearly about the Father. 26 📚✭At that time you will ask in my name, and I do not tell you that I will ask the Father for you, 27 📚for the Father himself loves you because you have loved me✭ and have believed that I came from God. 28 📚✭I came from the Father and entered the world. Now I am leaving the world and going to the Father”.
29 📚His disciples said to him, “See, now you are speaking clearly and not speaking in figurative language. 30 📚Now we are sure that you know all things and do not need any man to ask you anything. Because of this we believe that you came from God”.
31 📚Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? 32 📚Look, the time is coming, yes, has already come, that you will be scattered, each to his own, and will leave me✭ all alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
33 📚“These things✭ I have told you so that in me you might have peace.✭ In the world you will have tribulation.✭ But take courage✭; I have overcome the world”.✭