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In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. <A name="4"></a><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. <A name="5"></a><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 hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. <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 class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Now, however, I am going to Him who sent Me; yet none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’ <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Instead, your hearts are filled with sorrow because I have told you these things. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But I tell you the truth, it is for your benefit that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. <A name="9"></a><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And when He comes, He will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>in regard to sin, because they do not believe in Me; <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me; <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world has been condemned. <A name="13"></a><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you. <A name="17"></a><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span>” <A name="18"></a><p class="hdg">Grief Will Turn to Joy<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then some of His disciples asked one another, “Why is He telling us, <span class="red">‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’</span> and <span class="red">‘Because I am going to the Father’</span>?” <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They kept asking, “Why is He saying, <span class="red">‘a little while’</span>? We do not understand what He is saying.” <A name="20"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Aware that they wanted to question Him, Jesus said to them, <span class="red">“Are you asking one another why I said, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’? <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.</span> <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 class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Truly, truly, I tell you, whatever you 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 you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete. <A name="26"></a><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>In that day you will ask in My name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. <A name="28"></a><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="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.” <A name="30"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>His disciples said, “See, now You are speaking plainly and without figures of speech. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Now we understand that You know all things and that You have no need for anyone to question You. Because of this, we believe that You came from God.” <A name="32"></a><p class="reg"><span class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“Do you finally believe?”</span> Jesus replied. <A name="33"></a><span class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/16-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>“Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. 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>I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”</span></p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>Comforter</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>Helper</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>Counselor</i><span class="thin"> </span>; Greek <i>Paraclete</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> BYZ and TR include <i>because I go away to the Father.</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">27</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> WH <i>from the Father</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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