John 16:6-26

⁶Instead, because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.

⁷Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it’s to your advantage that I go away; because if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

⁸When He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

⁹of sin, because they don’t believe in me;

¹⁰of righteousness, because I go to my Father and you see me no more;

¹¹and of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

¹²“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

¹³However, when the Spirit of truth has come, He will guide you into all truth. He won’t speak on His own, but whatever He hears He will speak. He will announce things to come.

¹⁴He will glorify me, because He will take from what is mine and reveal it to you.

¹⁵Everything that the Father has is mine. That is why I said that He will take from what is mine and reveal it to you.

¹⁶“In a little while, you won’t see me; and in a little while longer, you will see me again, because I go to the Father.”

¹⁷Then some of Jesus’ disciples said among themselves, “What does He mean by, ‘In a little while, and you won’t see me; and in a little while longer, you will see me, again;’ and, ‘because I go to the Father’?”

¹⁸They kept asking, “What does He mean by ‘a little while’? We don’t understand what He is saying.”

¹⁹Now Jesus knew that they wanted to ask Him, and He said to them, “Are you asking yourselves about what I said, ‘In a little while, and you won’t see me; and in a little while longer, you will see me, again’?

²⁰Most assuredly, I tell you that you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice. You will be sad, but your sadness will be turned into joy.

²¹A woman in labor is in pain because her time has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the baby, she forgets the agony, for joy that a child has been born into the world.

²²Therefore you have sorrow now, too, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and nobody will take your joy away from you.

²³“In that day you will ask me nothing. Most assuredly, I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you.

²⁴Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

²⁵“I’ve told you these things in figures of speech, but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.

²⁶In that day you will ask in my name. I don’t tell you that I’ll ask the Father for you,