John 16:2-12

2 "They will ¹make you outcasts from the synagogue, but ²an hour is coming for everyone ³who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

3 "These things they will do ⁴because they have not known the Father or Me.

4 "But these things I have spoken to you, ⁵so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. These things I did not say to you ⁶at the beginning, because I was with you.

The Holy Spirit Promised

5 "But now ⁷I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, '⁸Where are You going?'

6 "But because I have said these things to you, ⁹sorrow has filled your heart.

7 "But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the ¹⁰Helper will not come to you; but if I go, ¹¹I will send Him to you.

8 "And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment;

9 concerning sin, ¹²because they do not believe in Me;

10 and concerning ¹³righteousness, because ¹⁴I go to the Father and you no longer see Me;

11 ¹⁵and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

12 "I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot * bear them now.

Cross References

• 1. John 9:22
• 2. John 4:21; John 16:25
• 3. Isaiah 66:5; Acts 26:9-11; Revelation 6:9
• 4. John 8:19, 55; John 15:21; John 17:25; Acts 3:17; 1 John 3:1
• 5. John 13:19
• 6. Luke 1:2
• 7. John 7:33; John 16:10, 17, 28
• 8. John 13:36; John 14:5
• 9. John 14:1; John 16:22
• 10. John 14:16
• 11. John 14:26
• 12. John 15:22, 24
• 13. Acts 3:14; Acts 7:52; Acts 17:31; 1 Peter 3:18
• 14. John 16:5
• 15. John 12:31

Footnotes

• [a] Or "They will have you excommunicated"
• [b] Or "will remember them, that I told you"
• [c] Gr "Paracletos", one called alongside to help; or "Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor"