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And these I said not to you from the beginning, for I was 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 do I retire to him having sent me; and not one of you asks me, Where dost thou retire. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But because I have spoken these to you, sorrow has filled your heart. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But I say the truth to you; it is profitable to you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Intercessor shall not come to you; and if I go, 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 having come, he will convict the world of sin, and of justice, and of judgment: <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Truly of sin, because they believe not in me; <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And of justice, because I retire to my Father, and ye see me no more; <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And of judgment, for the ruler of this world has been judged.<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 say to 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>And when he should come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatever he should hear, shall he speak: and he shall announce to you the things coming. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He shall honour me: for he shall take of mine, and announce to you. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>All things which the Father has are mine: therefore said I, he shall take of mine, and announce to you.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>A little while, and ye see me not: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, and because I retire 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 of his disciples to one another, What is this which he says to you, A little, and ye see me not: and again, a little, and ye shall see me: and, Because I retire to my Father? <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then said they, What is this which he says, A little we know not what he says. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then knew Jesus that they wished to ask him, and he said to them, For this seek ye with one another that I said, A little while, and ye see me not; and again a little, and ye shall see me. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Truly, truly, I say to you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be grieved, but your grief shall be into joy. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>A woman when she should bring forth, has grief, because her hour has come: and when the child should be born, she no more remembers the anguish, for the joy that a man was born into the world. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And where truly ye now have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes away 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>And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Truly, truly, I say to you, That whatever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give you. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Until now ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy might be completed.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>These have I spoken to you in proverbs: but the hour comes, when I shall no more speak to you in proverbs, but with freedom of speech will I announce to you of the Father. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>In that day shall ye ask in my name: and I say not to you that I will ask 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 loves you, for ye have loved me, and believed that I came forth from God. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>His disciples say to him, See, now thou speakest with freedom of speech, and sayest no proverb. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Now we know that thou knowest all things, and hast no need that any ask thee: by this we believe that thou earnest forth from God. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, Now do ye believe? <A name="33"></a><span class="red"><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Behold, the hour comes, and has now come, that ye be scattered, each to his own, and leave me alone: and I am not alone, for the Father is with me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>These have I spoken to you, that in me ye might have peace. 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