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For you will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing a holy service for God.
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This is because they have never known the Father or me.
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Yes, I’m telling you these things now, so that when they happen, you will remember my warning. I didn’t tell you earlier because I was going to be with you for a while longer.
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“But now I am going away to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking where I am going.
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Instead, you grieve because of what I’ve told you.
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But in fact, it is best for you that I go away, because if I don’t, the Advocate won’t come. If I do go away, then I will send him to you.
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And when he comes, he will convict the world of its sin, and of God’s righteousness, and of the coming judgment.
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The world’s sin is that it refuses to believe in me.
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Righteousness is available because I go to the Father, and you will see me no more.
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Judgment will come because the ruler of this world has already been judged.
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“There is so much more I want to tell you, but you can’t bear it now.