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<span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me; <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me; <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear <i>them</i> now. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose <i>it</i> to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose <i>it</i> to you. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Jesus Death and Resurrection Foretold</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>A little while, and you will no longer see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span><i>Some</i> of His disciples then said to one another, What is this thing He is telling us, A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me; and, because I go to the Father? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>So they were saying, What is this that He says, A little while? We do not know what He is talking about. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Jesus knew that they wished to question Him, and He said to them, Are you deliberating together about this, that I said, A little while, and you will not see Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>Truly, truly, I say to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but your grief will be turned into joy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a child has been born into the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one <i>will</i> take your joy away from you. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Prayer Promises</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>In that day you will not question Me about anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly of the Father. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will request of the Father on your behalf; <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>I came forth from the Father and have come into the world; I am leaving the world again and going to the Father. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>His disciples said, Lo, now You are speaking plainly and are not using a figure of speech. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>Now we know that You know all things, and have no need for anyone to question You; by this we believe that You came from God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, Do you now believe? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>Behold, an hour is coming, and has <i>already</i> come, for you to be scattered, each to his own <i>home,</i> and to leave Me alone; and <i>yet</i> I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/john/16.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And he, when he is come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/john/16.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And when he is come, he will convince the world of sin, and of justice, and of judgment. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/john/16.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And having come, he will bring demonstration to the world, of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/john/16.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And he, when he is come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/john/16.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/john/16.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />And He, when He comes, will convict the world in respect of sin, of righteousness, and of judgement; --<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/john/16.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/john/16.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment;<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/all_saints_day_and_other_sermons/sermon_xii_presence_in_absence.htm">Presence in Absence</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Eversley, third Sunday after Easter. 1862. St John xvi. 16. "A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father." Divines differ, and, perhaps, have always differed, about the meaning of these words. Some think that our Lord speaks in them of His death and resurrection. Others that He speaks of His ascension and coming again in glory. I cannot decide which is right. I dare not decide. It is a very solemn thing--too solemn <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/all_saints_day_and_other_sermons/sermon_xii_presence_in_absence.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Kingsley—</span><span class="citation2">All Saints' Day and Other Sermons</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/november_6_evening.htm">November 6 Evening</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Lead me in thy truth, and teach me--PSA. 25:5. When . . . the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth.--Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.--All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/november_6_evening.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/november_29_evening.htm">November 29 Evening</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Do ye now believe?--JOHN 16:31. What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? Faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son. Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead.--Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Ye see then how that <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/november_29_evening.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/may_14_morning.htm">May 14 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The fellowship of His sufferings.--PHI. 3:10. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.--In the world ye shall have tribulation.--Because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none.--At my <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/may_14_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/december_21_morning.htm">December 21 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The days of thy mourning shall be ended.--ISA. 60:20. In the world ye shall have tribulation.--The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.--We that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/december_21_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/june_15_evening.htm">June 15 Evening</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The Spirit . . . maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.--ROM. 8:27. Verily, verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.--Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit. This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us; and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/june_15_evening.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/august_15_he_will_guide.htm">August 15. "He Will Guide You into all Truth" (John xvi. 13). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"He will guide you into all truth" (John xvi. 13). The Holy Ghost does not come to give us extraordinary manifestations, but to give its life and light, and the nearer we come to Him, the more simple will His illumination and leading be. He comes to "guide us into all truth." He comes to shed light upon our own hearts, and to show us ourselves. He comes to reveal Christ, to give, and then to illumine, the Holy Scriptures, and to make Divine realities vivid and clear to our spiritual apprehension. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/august_15_he_will_guide.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/october_29_whatsoever_ye_shall.htm">October 29. "Whatsoever Ye Shall Ask the Father in My Name, He Will Give it You" (John xvi. 23). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, He will give it you" (John xvi. 23). Two men go to the bank cashier, both holding in their hands a piece of paper. One is dressed in expensive style, and presents a gloved and jeweled hand; the other is a rough, unwashed workman. The first is rejected with a polite sentence, and the second receives a thousand dollars over the counter. What is the difference? The one presented a worthless name; the other handed in a note endorsed by the president of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/october_29_whatsoever_ye_shall.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/march_5_i_have_overcome.htm">March 5. "I have Overcome the World" (John xvi. 33). </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"I have overcome the world" (John xvi. 33). Christ has overcome for us every one of our four terrible foes--Sin, Sickness, Sorrow, Satan. He has borne our Sin, and we may lay all, even down to our sinfulness itself, on Him. "I have overcome for thee." He has borne our sickness, and we may detach ourselves from our old infirmities and rise into His glorious life and strength. He has borne our sorrows, and we must not even carry a care, but rejoice evermore, and even glory in tribulations also. And <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/simpson/days_of_heaven_upon_earth_/march_5_i_have_overcome.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Rev. A. B. Simpson—</span><span class="citation2">Days of Heaven Upon Earth </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/discipline_and_other_sermons/sermon_xx_self-help.htm">Self-Help</a><br></span><span class="snippet">ST. JOHN xvi. 7. It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. This is a deep and strange saying. How can it be expedient, useful, or profitable, for any human being that Christ should go away from them? To be in Christ's presence; to see his face; to hear his voice;--would not this be the most expedient and profitable, yea, the most blessed and blissful of things which could befall us? Is it not <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/discipline_and_other_sermons/sermon_xx_self-help.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Kingsley—</span><span class="citation2">Discipline and Other Sermons</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_st_john_chaps_xv_to_xxi/from_and_to.htm">From' and 'to'</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.'--JOHN xvi. 28. These majestic and strange words are the proper close of our Lord's discourse, what follows being rather a reply to the disciples' exclamation. There is nothing absolutely new in them, but what is new is the completeness and the brevity with which they cover the whole ground of His being, work, and glory. They fall into two halves, each consisting of two clauses; the former half <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_st_john_chaps_xv_to_xxi/from_and_to.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. 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