John 16–17

Chapter 16

Jesus’ Warning

¹“^aThese things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept from ^bstumbling.

²“¹They will ^amake you outcasts from the synagogue, but ^ban hour is coming for everyone ^cwho kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

³“These things they will do ^abecause they have not known the Father or Me.

⁴“But these things I have spoken to you, ^aso that when their hour comes, you ¹may remember that I told you of them. These things I did not say to you ^bat the beginning, because I was with you.

The Holy Spirit Promised

⁵“But now ^aI am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, ‘^bWhere are You going?’

⁶“But because I have said these things to you, ^asorrow has filled your heart.

⁷“But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the ^1aHelper will not come to you; but if I go, ^bI will send Him to you.

⁸“And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment;

⁹concerning sin, ^abecause they do not believe in Me;

¹⁰and concerning ^arighteousness, because ^bI go to the Father and you no longer see Me;

^11aand concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

¹²“I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

¹³“But when He, ^athe Spirit of truth, comes, He will ^bguide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.

¹⁴“He will ^aglorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you.

¹⁵“^aAll things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.

Jesus’ Death and Resurrection Foretold

¹⁶“^aA little while, and ^byou will no longer see Me; and again a little while, and ^cyou will see Me.”

¹⁷Some of His disciples then said to one another, “What is this thing He is telling us, ‘^aA little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’; and, ‘because ^bI go to the Father’?”

¹⁸So they were saying, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not know what He is talking about.”

^19aJesus knew that they wished to question Him, and He said to them, “Are you deliberating together about this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me’?

²⁰“Truly, truly, I say to you, that ^ayou will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but ^byour grief will be turned into joy.

²¹“^aWhenever a woman is in labor she has ¹pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a ²child has been born into the world.

²²“Therefore ^ayou too have grief now; but ^bI will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

Prayer Promises

²³“^aIn that day ^byou will not question Me about anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, ^cif you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you.

²⁴“^aUntil now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your ^bjoy may be made full.

²⁵“These things I have spoken to you in ^1afigurative language; ^ban hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly of the Father.

²⁶“^aIn that day ^byou will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will request of the Father on your behalf;

²⁷for ^athe Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and ^bhave believed that ^cI came forth from the Father.

²⁸“^aI came forth from the Father and have come into the world; I am leaving the world again and ^bgoing to the Father.”

²⁹His disciples said, “Lo, now You are speaking plainly and are not ¹using ^aa figure of speech.

³⁰“Now we know that You know all things, and have no need for anyone to question You; by this we ^abelieve that You ^bcame from God.”

³¹Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe?

³²“Behold, ^aan hour is coming, and has already come, for ^byou to be scattered, each to ^chis own home, and to leave Me alone; and yet ^dI am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

³³“These things I have spoken to you, so that ^ain Me you may have peace. ^bIn the world you have tribulation, but ^ctake courage; ^dI have overcome the world.”

Chapter 17

The High Priestly Prayer

¹Jesus spoke these things; and ^alifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; ^bglorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You,

²even as ^aYou gave Him authority over all flesh, that ^bto ¹all whom You have given Him, ^cHe may give eternal life.

³“This is eternal life, that they may know You, ^athe only true God, and Jesus Christ whom ^bYou have sent.

⁴“^aI glorified You on the earth, ^1bhaving accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.

⁵“Now, Father, ^aglorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had ^bwith You before the world was.

⁶“^aI have manifested Your name to the men whom ^bYou gave Me out of the world; they were ^cYours and You gave them to Me, and they have ^dkept Your word.

⁷“Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You;

⁸for ^athe words which You gave Me ^bI have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that ^cI came forth from You, and they believed that ^dYou sent Me.

⁹“^aI ask on their behalf; ^bI do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom ^cYou have given Me; for ^dthey are Yours;

¹⁰and ^aall things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them.

¹¹“I am no longer in the world; and yet ^athey themselves are in the world, and ^bI come to You. ^cHoly Father, keep them in Your name, the name ^dwhich You have given Me, that ^ethey may be one even as We are.

¹²“While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name ^awhich You have given Me; and I guarded them and ^bnot one of them perished but ^cthe ¹son of perdition, so that the ^dScripture would be fulfilled.

The Disciples in the World

¹³“But now ^aI come to You; and ^bthese things I speak in the world so that they may have My ^cjoy made full in themselves.

¹⁴“I have given them Your word; and ^athe world has hated them, because ^bthey are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

¹⁵“I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them ¹from ^2athe evil one.

¹⁶“^aThey are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

¹⁷“^aSanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.

¹⁸“As ^aYou sent Me into the world, ^bI also have sent them into the world.

¹⁹“For their sakes I ^asanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be ^bsanctified ^cin truth.

²⁰“I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word;

²¹that they may all be one; ^aeven as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, ^bso that the world may ¹believe that ^cYou sent Me.

Their Future Glory

²²“The ^aglory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one;

^23aI in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected ¹in unity, so that the world may ²know that ^bYou sent Me, and ^cloved them, even as You have loved Me.

²⁴“Father, I desire that ^athey also, whom You have given Me, ^bbe with Me where I am, so that they may see My ^cglory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before ^dthe foundation of the world.

²⁵“O ^arighteous Father, ¹although ^bthe world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that ^cYou sent Me;

²⁶and ^aI have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that ^bthe love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”