1 "I have told you these things to keep you from stumbling.
2 They will expel you from the synagogues; in fact, an hour is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is rendering service to God.
3 They will do these things to you because they have not known the Father or me.
4 But I have told you these things so that when the hour comes you may remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you this from the start, because I was with you.
5 But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'
6 Instead, because I have told you these things, grief has filled your hearts.
7 Yet I am telling you the truth: it is for your good that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
8 When he comes, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment:
9 about sin, because they do not believe in me;
10 about righteousness, because I am going to my Father and you will no longer see me;
11 about judgment, because the ruler of this world stands judged.
12 I have many more things to tell you, but you are not able to bear them now.
13 But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will lead you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak whatever he hears, and he will announce to you what is to come.
14 He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and announce it to you.
15 Everything the Father has is mine. That is why I said that he will take what is mine and announce it to you.
16 In a little while you will no longer see me, and again in a little while you will see me, because I am going to the Father."
17 At this some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean by telling us, 'In a little while you will not see me, and again in a little while you will see me,' and, 'because I am going to the Father'?"
18 They kept saying, "What does he mean by 'a little while'? We do not understand what he is saying."
19 Jesus knew they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, "Are you asking one another about this, that I said, 'In a little while you will not see me, and again in a little while you will see me'?
20 Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice. You will grieve, but your grief will be turned into joy.
21 When a woman is giving birth, she has grief, because her hour has come; but once she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the distress, because of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.
22 So you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one takes your joy away from you.
23 On that day you will ask me nothing. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
24 Up to now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
25 I have said these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but will tell you openly about the Father.
26 On that day you will ask in my name. I am not telling you that I will ask the Father for you,
27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came out from God.
28 I came out from the Father and have come into the world; now I am leaving the world again and going to the Father."
29 His disciples said to him, "There, now you are speaking openly and not in any figure of speech.
30 Now we know that you know everything and do not need anyone to ask you questions. Because of this we believe that you came out from God."
31 Jesus answered them, "So now you believe?
32 Look, an hour is coming, and has already come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
33 I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have trouble; but take heart, I have conquered the world."