John 16–17

Chapter 16

These things have I spoken to you, that you may not be scandalized.

²They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth a service to God.

³And these things will they do to you; because they have not known the Father nor me.

⁴But these things I have told you, that when the hour shall come, you may remember that I told you of them.

⁵But I told you not these things from the beginning, because I was with you. And now I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me: Whither goest thou?

⁶But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

⁷But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go. For if I go not, the Paraclete will not come to you: but if I go, I will send him to you.

⁸And when he is come, he will convince the world of sin and of justice and of judgment.

⁹Of sin: because they believed not in me.

¹⁰And of justice: because I go to the Father: and you shall see me no longer.

¹¹And of judgment: because the prince of this world is already judged.

¹²I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now.

¹³But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all truth. For he shall not speak of himself: but what things soever he shall hear, he shall speak. And the things that are to come, he shall shew you.

¹⁴He shall glorify me: because he shall receive of mine and shall shew it to you.

¹⁵All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine. Therefore I said that he shall receive of me and shew it to you.

¹⁶A little while, and now you shall not see me: and again a little while, and you shall see me: because I go to the Father.

¹⁷Then some of his disciples said one to another: What is this that he saith to us: A little while, and you shall not see me: and again a little while, and you shall see me, and, Because I go to the Father?

¹⁸They said therefore: What is this that he saith, A little while? We know not what he speaketh.

¹⁹And Jesus knew that they had a mind to ask him. And he said to them: Of this do you inquire among yourselves, because I said: A little while, and you shall not see me; and again a little while, and you shall see me?

²⁰Amen, amen, I say to you, that you shall lament and weep, but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be made sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

²¹A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

²²So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you.

²³And in that day you shall not ask me any thing. Amen, amen, I say to you: if you ask the Father any thing in my name, he will give it you.

²⁴Hitherto, you have not asked any thing in my name. Ask, and you shall receive; that your joy may be full.

²⁵These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the Father.

²⁶In that day, you shall ask in my name: and I say not to you that I will ask the Father for you.

²⁷For the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came out from God.

²⁸I came forth from the Father and am come into the world: again I leave the world and I go to the Father.

²⁹His disciples say to him: Behold, now thou speakest plainly and speakest no proverb.

³⁰Now we know that thou knowest all things and thou needest not that any man should ask thee. By this we believe that thou camest forth from God.

³¹Jesus answered them: Do you now believe?

³²Behold, the hour cometh, and it is now come, that you shall be scattered every man to his own and shall leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

³³These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have distress. But have confidence. I have overcome the world.

Chapter 17

These things Jesus spoke: and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said: Father, the hour is come. Glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee.

²As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.

³Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

⁴I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

⁵And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had, before the world was, with thee.

⁶I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were: and to me thou gavest them. And they have kept thy word.

⁷Now they have known that all things which thou hast given me are from thee:

⁸Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them. And they have received them and have known in very deed that I came out from thee: and they have believed that thou didst send me.

⁹I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me: because they are thine.

¹⁰And all my things are thine, and thine are mine: and I am glorified in them.

¹¹And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou hast given me: that they may be one, as we also are.

¹²While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou gavest me have I kept: and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition: that the scripture may be fulfilled.

¹³And now I come to thee: and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy filled in themselves.

¹⁴I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them: because they are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.

¹⁵I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil.

¹⁶They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.

¹⁷Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.

¹⁸As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

¹⁹And for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

²⁰And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me.

²¹That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

²²And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given to them: that, they may be one, as we also are one.

²³I in them, and thou in me: that they may be made perfect in one: and the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them, as thou hast also loved me.

²⁴Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world.

²⁵Just Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee. And these have known that thou hast sent me.

²⁶And I have made known thy name to them and will make it known: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.