John 16:6-26

⁶Although your hearts are full of sorrow at all that I have been saying to you.

⁷Yet I am only telling you the truth; it is for your good that I should go away. For otherwise the helper will never come to you, but, if I leave you, I will send him to you.

⁸And he, when he comes, will bring conviction to the world as to sin, and as to righteousness, and as to judgment;

⁹as to sin, for people do not believe in me;

¹⁰as to righteousness, for I am going to the Father, and you will see me no longer;

¹¹as to judgment, for the Spirit that is ruling this world has been condemned.

¹²I have still much to say to you, but you cannot bear it now.

¹³Yet when he — The Spirit of truth — comes, he will guide you into all truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but he will speak of all that he hears; and he will tell you of the things that are to come.

¹⁴He will honor me; because he will take of what is mine, and will tell it to you.

¹⁵Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said that he takes of what is mine, and will tell it to you.

¹⁶In a little while you will no longer see me; and then in a little while you will see me indeed.”

¹⁷At this some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying to us ‘In a little while you will not see me, and then in a little while you will see me indeed’; and by saying ‘Because I am going to the Father’?

¹⁸What does he mean by ‘In a little while’?” they said; “we do not know what he is speaking about.”

¹⁹Jesus saw that they were wanting to ask him a question, and said, “Are you trying to find out from one another what I meant by saying ‘In a little while you will not see me; and then in a little while you will see me indeed’?

²⁰In truth I tell you that you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; you will suffer pain, but your pain will turn to joy.

²¹A woman in labor is in pain because her time has come; but no sooner is the child born, than she forgets her trouble in her joy that a child has been born into the world.

²²You, in the same way, are sorry now; but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will rob you of your joy.

²³And at that time you will not ask me anything; in truth I tell you, if you ask the Father for anything, he will grant it to you in my name.

²⁴So far you have not asked for anything, in my name; ask, and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

²⁵I have spoken to you of all this in figures; a time is coming, however, when I will not speak any longer to you in figures, but will tell you about the Father plainly.

²⁶You will ask, at that time, in my name; and I do not say that I will intercede with the Father for you;