“They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
“But now I am going away to him who sent me, and not one of you asks me, ‘Where are you going? ’
“Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send him to you.
“about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me;
“When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak on his own, but he will speak whatever he hears. He will also declare to you what is to come.
“He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
“Everything the Father has is mine. This is why I told you that he takes from what is mine and will declare it to you.
Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this he’s telling us: ‘In a little while, you will not see me; again in a little while, you will see me,’ and, ‘Because I am going to the Father’? ”
Jesus knew they wanted to ask him, and so he said to them, “Are you asking one another about what I said, ‘In a little while, you will not see me; again in a little while, you will see me’?
“Truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice. You will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy.
“When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.
“In that day you will not ask me anything. Truly I tell you, anything you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.
“Until now you have asked for nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
“I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.
“On that day you will ask in my name, and I am not telling you that I will ask the Father on your behalf.
“I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”
His disciples said, “Look, now you’re speaking plainly and not using any figurative language.
“Now we know that you know everything and don’t need anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”
“Indeed, an hour is coming, and has come, when each of you will be scattered to his own home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
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