John 16:25-33

I Have Overcome the World

25 "I have said these things to you in figures of speech. ¹The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.

26 In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf;

27 ²for the Father himself loves you, because ³you have loved me and ⁴have believed that I came from God.^[a]

28 ⁵I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now ⁶I am leaving the world and going to the Father."

29 His disciples said, "Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not ⁷using figurative speech!

30 Now we know that ⁸you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that ⁹you came from God."

31 Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe?

32 Behold, ¹⁰the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when ¹¹you will be scattered, each to his own home, and ¹²will leave me alone. ¹³Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

33 I have said these things to you, that ¹⁴in me you may have peace. ¹⁵In the world you will have ¹⁶tribulation. But ¹⁷take heart; ¹⁸I have overcome the world."

Cross References

• 1. ver. 2
• 2. [John 14:21, 23; John 17:23]
• 3. John 21:15-17; [1 Corinthians 16:22]
• 4. ver. 30; John 17:8
• 5. John 8:14; John 13:3
• 6. See John 14:12
• 7. ver. 25
• 8. John 21:17; See John 2:24, 25
• 9. [ver. 27, 28; John 3:2]
• 10. [John 4:21, 23]
• 11. Matthew 26:31; Mark 14:27
• 12. [Isaiah 63:5]
• 13. See John 8:16, 29
• 14. See John 14:27; Colossians 3:15
• 15. [John 15:18-21]
• 16. Revelation 1:9; See Acts 14:22
• 17. John 14:1, 27
• 18. [Romans 8:37; 1 John 4:4; 1 John 5:4, 5; Revelation 3:21; Revelation 12:11]

Footnotes

• [a]. Some manuscripts from the Father