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.

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John 16:13: When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

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