16:3. And these things will they do to you; because they have not known the Father nor me.
16:4. But these things I have told you, that when the hour shall come, you may remember that I told you of them.
16:5. But I told you not these things from the beginning, because I was with you. And now I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me: Whither goest thou?
16:6. But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
16:7. But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go. For if I go not, the Paraclete will not come to you: but if I go, I will send him to you.
16:8. And when he is come, he will convince the world of sin and of justice and of judgment.
He will convince the world of sin, etc... The Holy Ghost, by his coming brought over many thousands, first, to a sense of their sin in not believing in Christ. Secondly, to a conviction of the justice of Christ, now sitting at the right hand of his Father. And thirdly, to a right apprehension of the judgment prepared for them that choose to follow Satan, who is already judged and condemned.
16:9. Of sin: because they believed not in me.
16:10. And of justice: because I go to the Father: and you shall see me no longer.
16:11. And of judgment: because the prince of this world is already judged.
16:12. I have yet many things to say to you: but you cannot bear them now.
16:13. But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all truth. For he shall not speak of himself: but what things soever he shall hear, he shall speak. And the things that are to come, he shall shew you.
Will teach you all truth... See the annotation on chap. 14. ver. 26.
16:14. He shall glorify me: because he shall receive of mine and shall shew it to you.
16:15. All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine. Therefore I said that he shall receive of me and shew it to you.
16:16. A little while, and now you shall not see me: and again a little while, and you shall see me: because I go to the Father.
16:17. Then some of his disciples said one to another: What is this that he saith to us: A little while, and you shall not see me: and again a little while, and you shall see me, and, Because I go to the Father?
16:18. They said therefore: What is this that he saith, A little while?
We know not what he speaketh.
16:19. And Jesus knew that they had a mind to ask him. And he said to them: Of this do you inquire among yourselves, because I said: A little while, and you shall not see me; and again a little while, and you shall see me?
16:20. Amen, amen, I say to you, that you shall lament and weep, but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be made sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
16:21. A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
16:22. So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you.
16:23. And in that day you shall not ask me any thing. Amen, amen, I say to you: if you ask the Father any thing in my name, he will give it you.
16:24. Hitherto, you have not asked any thing in my name. Ask, and you shall receive; that your joy may be full.
16:25. These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the Father.
16:26. In that day, you shall ask in my name: and I say not to you that I will ask the Father for you.
16:27. For the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came out from G.o.d.
16:28. I came forth from the Father and am come into the world: again I leave the world and I go to the Father.
16:29. His disciples say to him: Behold, now thou speakest plainly and speakest no proverb.
16:30. Now we know that thou knowest all things and thou needest not that any man should ask thee. By this we believe that thou camest forth from G.o.d.
16:31. Jesus answered them: Do you now believe?
16:32. Behold, the hour cometh, and it is now come, that you shall be scattered every man to his own and shall leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
16:33. These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace.
In the world you shall have distress. But have confidence. I have overcome the world.
John Chapter 17
Christ"s prayer for his disciples.
17:1. These things Jesus spoke: and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said: the hour is come. Glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee.
17:2. As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.
17:3. Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true G.o.d, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
17:4. I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
17:5. And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had, before the world was, with thee.
17:6. I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were: and to me thou gavest them. And they have kept thy word.
17:7. Now they have known that all things which thou hast given me are from thee:
17:8. Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them. And they have received them and have known in very deed that I came out from thee: and they have believed that thou didst send me.
17:9. I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me: because they are thine.
17:10. And all my things are thine, and thine are mine: and I am glorified in them.
17:11. And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou hast given me: that they may be one, as we also are.
17:12. While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou gavest me have I kept: and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition: that the scripture may be fulfilled.
17:13. And now I come to thee: and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy filled in themselves.
17:14. I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them: because they are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.