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. 16:25 ver. 2
• 2. 16:27 [ch. 14:21, 23; 17:23]
• 3. 16:27 ch. 21:15-17; [1 Cor. 16:22]
• 4. 16:27 ver. 30; ch. 17:8
• 5. 16:28 ch. 8:14; 13:3
• 6. 16:28 See ch. 14:12
• 7. 16:29 ver. 25
• 8. 16:30 ch. 21:17; See ch. 2:24, 25
• 9. 16:30 [ver. 27, 28; ch. 3:2]
• 10. 16:32 [ch. 4:21, 23]
• 11. 16:32 Matt. 26:31; Mark 14:27
• 12. 16:32 [Isa. 63:5]
• 13. 16:32 See ch. 8:16, 29
• 14. 16:33 See ch. 14:27; Col. 3:15
• 15. 16:33 [ch. 15:18-21]
• 16. 16:33 Rev. 1:9; See Acts 14:22
• 17. 16:33 ch. 14:1, 27
• 18. 16:33 [Rom. 8:37; 1 John 4:4; 5:4, 5; Rev. 3:21; 12:11]

Footnotes

• [a] 16:27 Some manuscripts 'from the Father'