16Verse 1“I have spoken these things to you to avoid your being caused to stumble+Verse 2—they will excommunicate you; indeed, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering God service!+Verse 3And they will do these things because they have not known either the Father or me.Verse 4Now I have told you these things so that when the time comes you may remember that I told you about them; I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.+
What the Enabler will do
Verse 5“Now then, I am going away to Him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’Verse 6But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.Verse 7Nevertheless I am telling you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, because if I do not go away the Enabler will not come to you, but if I do go I will send Him to you.+Verse 8“Now when He comes he will convict the world about sin and about righteousness and about judgment:Verse 9first about sin, because they do not believe into me;+Verse 10then about righteousness, because I am going away to my Father and you will no longer see me;+Verse 11then about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.+Verse 12“I still have many things to say to you but you cannot bear it now.+Verse 13However, when He, the Spirit of the Truth, has come, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own, but He will speak whatever He hears.+He will also communicate to you the things that are coming.Verse 14He will glorify me because He will take of what is mine and communicate it to you.Verse 15All that the Father has is mine;+that is why I said that He takes from what is mine and will communicate it to you.
Sorrow to joy
Verse 16“In just a little you will not see me, and in another little you will see me, because I am going to the Father.”+Verse 17Then some of His disciples said among themselves: “What is this that He is telling us, ‘In just a little you will not see me, and in another little you will see me,’ and because ‘I am going to the Father’?”Verse 18So they said: “What is this ‘little’ that He mentions? We do not know what He is talking about.”+Verse 19Well Jesus knew that they were wanting to question Him and said to them: “Are you inquiring among yourselves about what I said, ‘In just a little you will not see me, and in another little you will see me’?Verse 20Most assuredly I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will become grieved,+but your grief will be turned into joy.+Verse 21When a woman gives birth she has pain, because her time has come; but when the child is born she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.Verse 22So in your turn you are now experiencing grief, but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.Verse 23In that day+you will not question me about anything. “Most assuredly I say to you that whatever you ask the Father in my name He will give you.Verse 24Until now you have not asked anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.
Figures of speech
Verse 25“I have told you these things using figures of speech, but a time is coming when I will no longer talk to you with figures of speech; rather I will tell you plainly about the Father.Verse 26In that day you will ask in my name; I do not say to you that I will request the Father on your behalf,Verse 27because the Father Himself is fond of you,+in that you have become fond of me and have believed that I came forth from God.Verse 28I did come forth from the Father and have come into the world. I am leaving the world again+and am going to the Father.”Verse 29His disciples say to Him: “Hey, now you are speaking plainly and using no figure of speech!Verse 30Now we know that you know everything and don't need anyone to question you.+By this we believe that you came forth from God.”+
“Take heart!”
Verse 31Jesus answered them: “Do you believe now, really?Verse 32Listen, an hour is coming, actually it has already arrived, that you will be scattered, each to his own, and you will leave me alone.+Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.Verse 33I have spoken these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression;+but take heart, I have conquered the world!”+