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 about sin,
about righteousness, and about judgment; {16:9} about sin, because
they don't believe in me; {16:10} about righteousness, because I am
going to my Father, and you won't see me any more; {16:11} about
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 truth, for he will not speak from himself; but
whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that
are coming. {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 gives birth, 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 human being is born into the world. {16:22}
Therefore you 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 questions. Most assuredly I
tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give
it to you. {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 is
coming 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 is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered,
everyone to his own place, and you 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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