But, I tell you the truth, it is best for you that I go away. If I do
not go the Comforter will not come to you. But if I depart, I will send
Him to you. When He comes, He will convict the world of sin, and of
righteousness, and of judgment. Of sin, because they do not believe in
me. Of righteousness, because I go to my Father and you see me no more.
Of judgment, because the evil one who is prince of this world is
condemned.
I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot hear them now.
However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all
truth because He will not speak on His own, but whatever He hears, He
will reveal. He will show you things to come. He will glorify me
because He will take from what is my own and reveal it to you. All
things that the Father has are mine and that is why I said He will take
from my own and reveal it to you. 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.
Then some of His disciples said among themselves, What is this that He
said to us? In a little while you will not see me? And in a little
while you will see me because I am going to the Father? What is this
little while? We cannot tell what He said. Now Jesus knew that they
wanted to ask Him, and He said to them, Are you wondering about In a
little while you will not see me, and, in a little while, you will see
me?
I tell you, You will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You
will be sorrowful but your grief will be turned into joy. When a woman
is in labor she is troubled because her hour has come. But as soon as
she delivers the child she remembers her anguish no more because of her
joy over a new birth to the world. So you now have sorrow. But I will
see you again. And your heart will rejoice. And no one can take your
joy from you. In that day you will need to ask nothing of me. Whatever
you ask the Father in my name, he will give you. Until now you have
asked nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, so your joy may be
full.
I have said these things as examples. But the time will come when I
will use no more examples because I will show you plainly from the
Father. On that day you will ask Him in my name and I will not have to
say that I will ask the Father for you. For the Father Himself loves
you because you love me and believe that I came from God. I came from
the Father and have come into the world. Now I leave the world and go
to the Father.
His disciples said to Him, now you speak plainly. Jesus said, Do you
now believe? The hour comes, yes, has now come, when you will be
scattered and on your own. You will leave me alone. Yet, I am not alone
because the Father is with me. I have said these things to you so that,
in me, you will have peace. In the world you will have tribulation.
But, be of good cheer, because I have overcome the world.
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