### World English Bible

John 15

## The Gospel According to Saint John

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| # Chapter 16
#### 1 | 'These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't be caused to stumble.
#### 2 | They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
#### 3 | They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
#### 4 | But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
#### 5 | But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'
#### 6 | But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.
#### 7 | Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don't go away, the Counselor won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
#### 8 | When he has come, he will convict the world in respect to sin, and righteousness, and judgment;
#### 9 | of sin, because they don't believe in me;
#### 10 | of righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you see me no more;
#### 11 | of judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.
#### 12 | I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now.
#### 13 | However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever things he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you the things that are to come.
#### 14 | He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you.
#### 15 | All things whatever the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine, and will declare it to you.
#### 16 | A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.'
#### 17 | Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, 'What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father?''
#### 18 | They said therefore, 'What is this that he says, 'A little while?' We don't know what he is saying.'
#### 19 | Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, 'Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?'
#### 20 | Most assuredly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
#### 21 | A woman, when she is in travail, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a child is born into the world.
#### 22 | You therefore now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
#### 23 | In that day you will ask me no question. Most assuredly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father, he will give it to you in my name.
#### 24 | Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
#### 25 | I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time comes when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
#### 26 | In that day you will ask in my name; and I don't say to you, that I will pray to the Father for you,
#### 27 | for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.
#### 28 | I came out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.'
#### 29 | His disciples said to him, 'Behold, now you speak plainly, and speak no figures of speech.
#### 30 | Now we know that you know all things, and don't need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came forth from God.'
#### 31 | Jesus answered them, 'Do you now believe?
#### 32 | Behold, the time comes, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
#### 33 | I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.'

John 17

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