John 16:1–15

“All this^j I have told you so that you will not fall away.^{k 2}They will put you out of the synagogue;^l in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.^{m 3}They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.^{n 4}I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember^o that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you,^{p 5}but now I am going to him who sent me.^q None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’^{r 6}Rather, you are filled with grief^s because I have said these things. ⁷But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate^t will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.^{u 8}When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: ⁹about sin,^v because people do not believe in me; ¹⁰about righteousness,^w because I am going to the Father,^x where you can see me no longer; ¹¹and about judgment, because the prince of this world^y now stands condemned.

¹²“I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.^{z 13}But when he, the Spirit of truth,^a comes, he will guide you into all the truth.^b He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. ¹⁴He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. ¹⁵All that belongs to the Father is mine.^c That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”