John 16:16-33

Jesus' Death and Resurrection Foretold

16 "¹A little while, and ²you will no longer see Me; and again a little while, and ³you will see Me."

17 Some of His disciples then said to one another, "What is this thing He is telling us, '⁴A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me'; and, 'because ⁵I 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 ⁶Jesus 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 ⁷you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but ⁸your grief will be turned into joy.

21 "⁹Whenever 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 ¹⁰you too have grief now; but ¹¹I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

Prayer Promises

23 "¹²In that day ¹³you will not question Me about anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, ¹⁴if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you.

24 "¹⁵Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your ¹⁶joy may be made full.

25 "These things I have spoken to you in ¹⁷figurative language; ¹⁸an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly of the Father.

26 "¹⁹In that day ²⁰you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will request of the Father on your behalf;

27 for ²¹the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and ²²have believed that ²³I came forth from the Father.

28 "²⁴I came forth from the Father and have come into the world; I am leaving the world again and ²⁵going to the Father."

29 His disciples said, "Lo, now You are speaking plainly and are not using ²⁶a figure of speech.

30 "Now we know that You know all things, and have no need for anyone to question You; by this we ²⁷believe that You ²⁸came from God."

31 Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe?

32 "Behold, ²⁹an hour is coming, and has already come, for ³⁰you to be scattered, each to ³¹his own home, and to leave Me alone; and yet ³²I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

33 "These things I have spoken to you, so that ³³in Me you may have peace. ³⁴In the world you have tribulation, but ³⁵take courage; ³⁶I have overcome the world."

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Cross References 36

1. John 7:33
2. John 14:18-24; John 16:16-24
3. John 16:22
4. John 16:16
5. John 16:5
6. Mark 9:32; John 6:61
7. Mark 16:10; Luke 23:27
8. John 20:20
9. Isaiah 13:8; Isaiah 21:3; Isaiah 26:17; Isaiah 66:7; Hosea 13:13; Micah 4:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:3
10. John 16:6
11. John 16:16
12. John 14:20; John 16:26
13. John 16:19, 30
14. John 15:16
15. John 14:14
16. John 3:29; John 15:11
17. Matthew 13:34; John 10:6; John 16:29
18. John 16:2
19. John 14:20; John 16:23
20. John 16:19, 30
21. John 14:21, 23
22. John 2:11; John 16:30
23. John 8:42
24. John 8:42; John 16:30
25. John 13:1, 3; John 16:5, 10, 17
26. Matthew 13:34; John 10:6; John 16:25
27. John 2:11; John 16:27
28. John 8:42; John 16:28
29. John 4:23; John 16:2, 25
30. Zechariah 13:7; Matthew 26:31
31. John 19:27
32. John 8:29
33. John 14:27
34. John 15:18f
35. Matthew 9:2
36. 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"