John 16–17

¹‘These things I have spoken to you, that ye may not be stumbled, ²out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God; ³and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.

⁴‘But these things I have spoken to you, that when the hour may come, ye may remember them, that I said them to you, and these things to you from the beginning I did not say, because I was with you; ⁵and now I go away to Him who sent me, and none of you doth ask me, Whither dost thou go? ⁶but because these things I have said to you, the sorrow hath filled your heart.

⁷‘But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you; ⁸and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment; ⁹concerning sin indeed, because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰and concerning righteousness, because unto my Father I go away, and no more do ye behold me; ¹¹and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world hath been judged.

¹²‘I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear them now; ¹³and when He may come—the Spirit of truth—He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you; ¹⁴He will glorify me, because of mine He will take, and will tell to you.

¹⁵‘All things, as many as the Father hath, are mine; because of this I said, That of mine He will take, and will tell to you.

¹⁶A little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go away unto the Father.’ ¹⁷Therefore said some of his disciples one to another, ‘What is this that he saith to us, A little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, and, Because I go away unto the Father?’ ¹⁸they said then, ‘What is this he saith—the little while? we have not known what he saith.’ ¹⁹Jesus, therefore, knew that they were wishing to ask him, and he said to them, ‘Concerning this do ye seek one with another, because I said, A little while, and you do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me? ²⁰verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become. ²¹‘The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

²²‘And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you.

²³And in that day ye will question me nothing; verily, verily, I say to you, as many things as ye may ask of the Father in my name, He will give you; ²⁴till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. ²⁵‘These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.

²⁶‘In that day, in my name ye will make request, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father for you, ²⁷for the Father himself doth love you, because me ye have loved, and ye have believed that I from God came forth;

²⁸I came forth from the Father, and have come to the world; again I leave the world, and go on unto the Father.’ ²⁹His disciples say to him, ‘Lo, now freely thou dost speak, and no similitude speakest thou; ³⁰now we have known that thou hast known all things, and hast no need that any one do question thee; in this we believe that from God thou didst come forth.’ ³¹Jesus answered them, ‘Now do ye believe? lo, there doth come an hour, ³²and now it hath come, that ye may be scattered, each to his own things, and me ye may leave alone, and I am not alone, because the Father is with me; ³³these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage—I have overcome the world.’

Chapter 17

¹These things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to the heaven, and said—‘Father, the hour hath come, glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee, ²according as Thou didst give to him authority over all flesh, that—all that Thou hast given to him—he may give to them life age-during; ³and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send—Jesus Christ; ⁴I did glorify Thee on the earth, the work I did finish that Thou hast given me, that I may do it.

⁵‘And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;

⁶I did manifest Thy name to the men whom Thou hast given to me out of the world; Thine they were, and to me Thou hast given them, and Thy word they have kept; ⁷now they have known that all things, as many as Thou hast given to me, are from Thee, ⁸because the sayings that Thou hast given to me, I have given to them, and they themselves received, and have known truly, that from Thee I came forth, and they did believe that Thou didst send me. ⁹‘I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are, ¹⁰and all mine are Thine, and Thine are mine, and I have been glorified in them.

¹¹And no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we; ¹²when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled. ¹³‘And now unto Thee I come, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves; ¹⁴I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world; ¹⁵I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.

¹⁶‘Of the world they are not, as I of the world am not.

¹⁷Sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth; ¹⁸as Thou didst send me to the world, I also did send them to the world; ¹⁹and for them do I sanctify myself, that they also themselves may be sanctified in truth.

²⁰‘And not in regard to these alone do I ask, but also in regard to those who shall be believing, through their word, in me; ²¹that they all may be one, as Thou Father art in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.

²²‘And I, the glory that thou hast given to me, have given to them, that they may be one as we are one; ²³I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.

²⁴‘Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.

²⁵‘Righteous Father, also the world did not know Thee, and I knew Thee, and these have known that Thou didst send me, ²⁶and I made known to them Thy name, and will make known, that the love with which Thou lovedst me in them may be, and I in them.’

Chapter 18