John 16:17-33

17 Some of His disciples then said to one another, "What is this thing He is telling us, '¹A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me'; and, 'because ²I go to the Father '?"

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

19 ³Jesus 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 ⁴you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but ⁵your grief will be turned into joy.

21 "⁶Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, 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 child has been born into the world.

22 "Therefore ⁷you too have grief now; but ⁸I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

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23 "⁹In that day ¹⁰you will not question Me about anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, ¹¹if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you.

24 "¹²Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your ¹³joy may be made full.

25 "These things I have spoken to you in ¹⁴figurative language; ¹⁵an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly of the Father.

26 "¹⁶In that day ¹⁷you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will request of the Father on your behalf;

27 for ¹⁸the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and ¹⁹have believed that ²⁰I came forth from the Father.

28 "²¹I came forth from the Father and have come into the world; I am leaving the world again and ²²going to the Father."

29 His disciples said, "Lo, now You are speaking plainly and are not using ²³a figure of speech.

30 "Now we know that You know all things, and have no need for anyone to question You; by this we ²⁴believe that You ²⁵came from God."

31 Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe?

32 "Behold, ²⁶an hour is coming, and has already come, for ²⁷you to be scattered, each to ²⁸his own home, and to leave Me alone; and yet ²⁹I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

33 "These things I have spoken to you, so that ³⁰in Me you may have peace. ³¹In the world you have tribulation, but ³²take courage; ³³I have overcome the world."

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Cross References 33

1. John 16:16
2. John 16:5
3. Mark 9:32; John 6:61
4. Mark 16:10; Luke 23:27
5. John 20:20
6. Isaiah 13:8; Isaiah 21:3; Isaiah 26:17; Isaiah 66:7; Hosea 13:13; Micah 4:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:3
7. John 16:6
8. John 16:16
9. John 14:20; John 16:26
10. John 16:19, 30
11. John 15:16
12. John 14:14
13. John 3:29; John 15:11
14. Matthew 13:34; John 10:6; John 16:29
15. John 16:2
16. John 14:20; John 16:23
17. John 16:19, 30
18. John 14:21, 23
19. John 2:11; John 16:30
20. John 8:42
21. John 8:42; John 16:30
22. John 13:1, 3; John 16:5, 10, 17
23. Matthew 13:34; John 10:6; John 16:25
24. John 2:11; John 16:27
25. John 8:42; John 16:28
26. John 4:23; John 16:2, 25
27. Zechariah 13:7; Matthew 26:31
28. John 19:27
29. John 8:29
30. John 14:27
31. John 15:18f
32. Matthew 9:2
33. Romans 8:37; 2 Corinthians 2:14; 2 Corinthians 4:7f; 2 Corinthians 6:4f; Revelation 3:21; Revelation 12:11

Footnotes 5

[a]. Lit "grief"
[b]. Lit "human being"
[c]. Lit "proverbs;" or "figures of speech"
[d]. Lit "proverbs;" or "figures of speech"
[e]. Lit "saying a proverb"

John 16:17-33

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