The Good News According to Yochanan, Chapter 16
{16:1} "These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't be
caused to stumble. {16:2} They will put you out of the synagogues.
Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers
service to God. {16:3} They will do these things because they have not
known the Father, nor me. {16:4} But I have told you these things, so
that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them.
I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with
you. {16:5} But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you
asks me, 'Where are you going?' {16:6} But because I have told you
these things, sorrow has filled your heart. {16:7} Nevertheless I tell
you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don't
go away, the Counselor won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him
to you. {16:8} When he has come, he will convict the world in respect
to sin, and righteousness, and judgment; {16:9} of sin, because they
don't believe in me; {16:10} of righteousness, because I am going to
my Father, and you see me no more; {16:11} of judgment, because the
prince of this world has been judged. {16:12} I have yet many things
to tell you, but you can't bear them now. {16:13} However when he, the
Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all the truth, for
he will not speak from himself; but whatever things he hears, he will
speak. He will declare to you the things that are to come. {16:14} He
will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare
it to you. {16:15} All things whatever the Father has are mine;
therefore I said that he takes of mine, and will declare it to you.
{16:16} A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while,
and you will see me."
{16:17} Some of his [1>]talmidim[<1] therefore said to one another,
"What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see
me, and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go
to the Father?'" {16:18} They said therefore, "What is this that he
says, 'A little while?' We don't know what he is saying."
{16:19} Therefore Yeshua perceived that they wanted to ask him, and
he said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this,
that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little
while, and you will see me?' {16:20} Most assuredly I tell you, that
you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be
sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. {16:21} A woman,
when she is in travail, has sorrow, because her time has come. But
when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any
more, for the joy that a child is born into the world. {16:22} You
therefore now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart
will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. {16:23} In
that day you will ask me no question. Most assuredly I tell you,
whatever you may ask of the Father, he will give it to you in my name.
{16:24} Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you
will receive, that your joy may be made full. {16:25} I have spoken
these things to you in figures of speech. But the time comes when I
will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you
plainly about the Father. {16:26} In that day you will ask in my name;
and I don't say to you, that I will pray to the Father for you,
{16:27} for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me,
and have believed that I came forth from God. {16:28} I came out from
the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world,
and go to the Father."
{16:29} His [2>]talmidim[<2] said to him, "Behold, now you speak
plainly, and speak no figures of speech. {16:30} Now we know that you
know all things, and don't need for anyone to question you. By this we
believe that you came forth from God."
{16:31} Yeshua answered them, "Do you now believe? {16:32} Behold,
the time comes, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered,
everyone to his own place, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not
alone, because the Father is with me. {16:33} I have told you these
things, that in me you may have shalom. In the world you have
oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."
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Footnotes:
[1] {16:17} disciples
[2] {16:29} disciples
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