John

¹“I have told you these things, so that you would not be made to stumble. ²They will expel you from the synagogues! Yes, the time is coming when whoever kills you will think that he is offering {divine} service¹²²⁸ to God! ³They will do these things¹²²⁹ because they have not known the Father or me. ⁴But I have told you these things, so that when the time arrives, you may remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you. ⁵But now, I am going to him who sent me, and none of you is asking me, ‘Where are you going?’ ⁶But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. ⁷Yet, I tell you the truth; it is to your advantage that I go away because if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. ⁸When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment; ⁹about sin, because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰about righteousness, because I am going to my Father and you will not see me any more; ¹¹about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

¹²I still have many things to tell you, but you cannot bear them now. ¹³However, when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth because he will not speak from himself, but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will tell you of things that are yet to come. ¹⁴He will glorify me by taking from what is mine, and he will declare it to you. ¹⁵Everything the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take¹²³⁰ of [what is] mine and will declare it to you. ¹⁶In a little while, you will not see me, and then after a little while you will see me because I go to the Father.”¹²³¹

¹⁷At this, some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he is saying to us, ‘In a little while, you will no longer see me, and then after a little while you will see me’ and, ‘because I go to the Father?’” ¹⁸And so they kept asking, “What is this that he says, ‘A little while?’ We do not understand¹²³² what he is saying!”

¹⁹Now Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him [about these things], and he said to them, “Are you discussing among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘In a little while, you will no longer see me, and then after a little while you will see me?’ ²⁰Amen, amen, I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. And you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy! ²¹When a woman gives birth, she has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she does not remember the anguish any more because of the joy that a human being is born into the world. ²²Therefore, you now have sorrow, but I will see you again; and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you!

²³In that day you will ask me no [more] questions. Amen, amen, I tell you; whatever you may ask of the Father in my Name, he will give it to you. ²⁴Until now, you have asked nothing in my Name. Ask, and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete! ²⁵I have told you these things in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but I will tell you plainly about the Father. ²⁶In that day, you will ask in my Name. And I do not tell you that I will pray to the Father for you, ²⁷for the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and believed that I came forth from God. ²⁸I came forth from the Father, and I have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and return to the Father.”

²⁹His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you speak plainly, not in figures of speech. ³⁰Now we know that you know all things and we do not need for anyone to ask questions from you. By this we believe that you came forth from God.”

³¹Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? ³²Behold, the time is coming, yes, and it has now come, when you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will desert me. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. ³³I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have distress,¹²³³ but rejoice! I have overcome the world.”

The ‘high priestly’ prayer

1228. Greek latrei,an
1229. TR adds “to you”
1230. CT and MT read “takes” instead of “will take”
1231. CT omits “because I go to the Father”
1232. Or “know”
1233. Or “tribulation”