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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>John 16 NET Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/john/16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/john/16-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NET Bible</a> > John 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/15.htm" title="John 15">◄</a> John 16 <a href="../john/17.htm" title="John 17">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/john/16.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But I have told you these things so that when their time comes, you will remember that I told you about them.</p><p class="bodytext">“I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me, ‘Where are you going?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong concerning sin and righteousness and judgment – <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer; <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you what is to come. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He will glorify me, because he will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>In a little while you will see me no longer; again after a little while, you will see me.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is the meaning of what he is saying, ‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me,’ and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So they kept on repeating, “What is the meaning of what he says, ‘In a little while’? We do not understand what he is talking about.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Jesus could see that they wanted to ask him about these things, so he said to them, “Are you asking each other about this – that I said, ‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me’? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I tell you the solemn truth, you will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice; you will be sad, but your sadness will turn into joy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So also you have sorrow now, but <i>I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you</i>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>At that time you will ask me nothing. I tell you the solemn truth, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>At that time you will ask in my name, and I do not say that I will ask the Father on your behalf. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>His disciples said, “Look, now you are speaking plainly and not in obscure figures of speech! <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Now we know that you know everything and do not need anyone to ask you anything. Because of this we believe that you have come from God.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Jesus replied, “Do you now believe? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Look, a time is coming – and has come – when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage – I have conquered the world.”</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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