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And Your salvation all the day, themselves, “What is this that He says to us,
For I do not know their limits. ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and
16 I will go in the strength of the Lord again a little while, and you will see Me’; and,
GOD; ‘because I go to the Father’?” They said
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I will make mention of Your therefore, “What is this that He says, ‘A little
righteousness, of Yours only. while’? We do not know what He is saying.”
19 Now Jesus knew that they desired to ask
Proverbs 18:6–8
Him, and He said to them, “Are you inquiring
6 A fool’s lips enter into contention, among yourselves about what I said, ‘A little
And his mouth calls for blows. while, and you will not see Me; and again a lit-
7 A fool’s mouth is his destruction, tle while, and you will see Me’? Most assured-
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And his lips are the snare of his soul. ly, I say to you that you will weep and lament,
8 The words of a talebearer are like tasty but the world will rejoice; and you will be sor-
trifles, rowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
And they go down into the inmost 21 A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow
body. because her hour has come; but as soon as
she has given birth to the child, she no longer
John 16:1–33
remembers the anguish, for joy that a human
“These things I have spoken to you, that being has been born into the world. There-
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16 you should not be made to stumble. They fore you now have sorrow; but I will see you
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will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy
time is coming that whoever kills you will no one will take from you.
think that he offers God service. And these 23 “And in that day you will ask Me nothing.
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things they will do to you because they have Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask
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not known the Father nor Me. But these the Father in My name He will give you. Un-
things I have told you, that when the time til now you have asked nothing in My name.
comes, you may remember that I told you of Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be
them. full.
“And these things I did not say to you at the 25 “These things I have spoken to you in fig-
beginning, because I was with you. urative language; but the time is coming when
5 “But now I go away to Him who sent Me, I will no longer speak to you in figurative lan-
and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You guage, but I will tell you plainly about the
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going?’ But because I have said these things Father. In that day you will ask in My name,
to you, sorrow has filled your heart. Never-
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theless I tell you the truth. It is to your advan-
tage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the
Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I 16:25 in figurative language. The word
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will send Him to you. And when He has come, means a veiled, pointed statement that is
He will convict the world of sin, and of righ- pregnant with meaning, i.e., something that is
teousness, and of judgment: of sin, because obscure.What seemed hard to understand for
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they do not believe in Me; of righteousness, the disciples during the life of Jesus would
because I go to My Father and you see Me no become clear after His death,resurrection,and
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more; of judgment, because the ruler of this the coming of the Holy Spirit (vv. 13,14; 14:26;
world is judged. 15:26,27).They would actually understand the
12 “I still have many things to say to you, but ministry of Christ better than they had while
you cannot bear them now. However, when they were with Him, as the Spirit inspired
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He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide them to write the Gospels and Epistles and
you into all truth; for He will not speak on His ministered in and through them.
own authority, but whatever He hears He will
speak; and He will tell you things to come.
14 He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is and I do not say to you that I shall pray the
Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father for you; for the Father Himself loves
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Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He you, because you have loved Me, and have
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will take of Mine and declare it to you. believed that I came forth from God. I came
16 “A little while, and you will not see Me; and forth from the Father and have come into the
again a little while, and you will see Me, because world. Again, I leave the world and go to the
I go to the Father.” Father.”
17 Then some of His disciples said among 29 His disciples said to Him, “See, now You are
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