John 16:12–24 · BSB
16:12
I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it.
16:13
However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.
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16:14
He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.
16:15
Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you.
16:16
In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me.”
16:17
Then some of His disciples asked one another, “Why is He telling us, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”
16:18
They kept asking, “Why is He saying, ‘a little while’? We do not understand what He is saying.”
16:19
Aware that they wanted to question Him, Jesus said to them, “Are you asking one another why I said, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’?
16:20
Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
16:21
A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
16:22
So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
16:23
In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Truly, truly, I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
16:24
Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
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