John 16:1-10

1 These things I have spoken unto you that ye may not be offended.

2 They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming that every one who kills you will think to render service to God;

3 and these things they will do because they have not known the Father nor me.

4 But I have spoken these things to you, that when their hour shall have come, ye may remember them, that I have said [them] unto you. But I did not say these things unto you from [the] beginning, because I was with you.

5 But now I go to him that has sent me, and none of you demands of me, Where goest thou?

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

7 But I say the truth to you, It is profitable for you that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go I will send him to you.

8 And having come, he will bring demonstration to the world, of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

9 of sin, because they do not believe on me;

10 of righteousness, because I go away to [my] Father, and ye behold me no longer;

Footnotes

• [a]. Verb from skandalon: see Note, Matt. 13.57.
• [b]. 'Service' here is priestly service, latreia.
• [c]. Elenko: 'convince' supposes effect in the person convinced; 'convict' would not do for righteousness or judgment: I have said 'bring demonstration,' though it suggests perhaps too much the action of the Spirit when come; but his presence and all that he does affords this demonstration: see ch. 3.20.
• [d]. Eis: see Note, 2Tim. 1.12.