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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 Mace New Testament</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" /></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="../">Mace</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Mace New Testament</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/john/16-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Persecution Foretold<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../acts/23.htm#12">Acts 23:12–22</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I have told you these things that ye may not be discouraged. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>they shall expel you out of the synagogues: yea, the time is coming, when it will be thought an agreeable sacrifice to God for any one to take away your lives. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and thus will they treat you, because they have not known the father, nor me. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>but these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember what I now tell you. I did not tell you so much at the beginning, because, I was then to be with you.<p> <A name="6"></a><p class="hdg">The Promise of the Holy Spirit <br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../john/14.htm#15">John 14:15–26</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>but now I am going to him that sent me; yet none of you ask me now, whither are you going? <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>are your minds so overwhelm'd with sorrow at what I told you? <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: for if I do not go away, the advocate will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him to you. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and when he is come, he will convince the world of sin, of justice, of judgment: <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>of sin, because they believ'd not on me; <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>of justice, because I shall be with my father, and ye shall see me no more expos'd: <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>of judgment, because the prince of this world is condemn'd.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I have yet many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now; <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>but when he, the spirit of truth shall come, he will inform you of all those truths: for he will not speak from himself; but the information he shall receive will he communicate: and acquaint you with what is to come. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>he shall glorify me: for he will commuincate to you, the information, which I shall give him. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>all that the father has is mine: that is the reason of my saying, "he shall communicate to you the information that I shall give him."<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Within a little while ye shall not see me: but within a little while ye shall see me again, because I am going to the father.<p> <A name="18"></a><p class="hdg">Grief Will Turn to Joy<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>then said some of his disciples among themselves, what is the meaning of his saying, "within a little while ye shall not see me: but within a little while ye shall see me again, because I am going to the father?" <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>for, said they, we cannot comprehend the meaning of that expression, "within a little while?" <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>now Jesus perceiving that they had a mind to ask him, said to them, are you sollicitous about what I said, "within a little while ye shall not see me: but within a little while ye shall see me again?" <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>verily, verily I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>a woman when she is in travail, is afflicted at the approach of her pains: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, the remembrance of her anguish, is lost in her joy, that a man is born into the world. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>so you are afflicted at present: but I will see you again, and then shall your hearts be affected with joy, and your joy shall no one wrest from you.<p> <A name="24"></a><p class="hdg">Ask in My Name<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/18.htm#19">Matthew 18:19–20</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>tho' then you cannot ask any thing of me in person, whatever ye shall ask the father in my name, I assure you he will grant it. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be compleat.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>These things have I express'd in a figurative way: the time is coming when my language will be no longer enigmatical, but I shall give you a plain account relating to my father. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>though then ye shall ask in my name: I need not promise, that I will pray the father for you; <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>for the father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I had my mission from God. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I was sent by the father, and am come into the world: but now I leave the world, and am going to my father.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>His disciples said to him, what you say now is plain, and not enigmatical. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>now we are convinc'd that you know all our difficulties, and have no occasion that any man should propose them to you: by this we believe that you were sent from God. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, you now believe. <A name="33"></a><span class="red"><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>but, alas, the time is coming, yea, is already come, when ye shall be dispers'd every one to his own retreat, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the father is with me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>these things I have appriz'd you of, that ye might repose your confidence in me, the world shall give you trouble: but take courage, I have overcome the world.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Daniel Mace New Testament (1729)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../john/15.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="John 15"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="John 15" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../john/17.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="John 17"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="John 17" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>