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The sadness you have right now is similar to that pain, but the coming joy is also similar. When I see you again, you'll be full of joy, and it will be a joy no one can rob from you.
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You'll no longer be so full of questions.
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Ask in my name, according to my will, and he'll most certainly give it to you. Your joy will be a river overflowing its banks!
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"I've used figures of speech in telling you these things. Soon I'll drop the figures and tell you about the Father in plain language.
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Then you can make your requests directly to him in relation to this life I've revealed to you. I won't continue making requests of the Father on your behalf.
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I won't need to. Because you've gone out on a limb, committed yourselves to love and trust in me, believing I came directly from the Father, the Father loves you directly.
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First, I left the Father and arrived in the world; now I leave the world and travel to the Father."
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His disciples said, "Finally! You're giving it to us straight, in plain talk - no more figures of speech.
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Now we know that you know everything - it all comes together in you. You won't have to put up with our questions anymore. We're convinced you came from God."
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Jesus answered them, "Do you finally believe?
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In fact, you're about to make a run for it - saving your own skins and abandoning me. But I'm not abandoned. The Father is with me.