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¹“我对你们说了这些事，是要使你们不至于跌倒。 ²人要把你们赶出会堂，而且时候将到，凡杀你们的还以为是在事奉上帝。 ³他们这样做，是因为没有认识父，也没有认识我。 ⁴我对你们说了这些事，是要在他们做这些事的时候，你们会想起我对你们说过的话。”

圣灵的工作

“我起先没有对你们说这些事，因为我一直与你们同在。 ⁵现在我要到差我来的父那里去，你们中间却没有人问我‘你去哪里？’ ⁶只因我对你们说了这些事，你们就满心忧愁。 ⁷然而，我把真情告诉你们，我去对你们是有益的。我若不去，保惠师就不会到你们这里来；我若去，就差他到你们这里来。 ⁸他来的时候，要为罪、为义，为审判，指证世人； ⁹为罪，是因他们不信我； ¹⁰为义，是因我到父那里去，你们将不再见到我； ¹¹为审判，是因这世界的统治者已受了审判。
¹²“我还有好些事要告诉你们，但你们现在担当不了⚓。 ¹³但真理的灵来的时候，他要引导你们进入一切真理。因为他不是凭着自己说的，而是把他所听见的都说出来，并且要把将要来的事向你们传达。 ¹⁴他要荣耀我，因为他要把从我领受的向你们传达。 ¹⁵凡父所有的都是我的，所以我说，他要把从我领受的向你们传达。”

忧愁变为喜乐

¹⁶“不久，你们将不再见到我；再过不久，你们还要见到我。” ¹⁷有几个门徒彼此说：“他对我们说‘不久，你们将不再见到我；再过不久，你们还要见到我’；又说‘因我到父那里去’。这是什么意思呢？” ¹⁸于是门徒说：“他说⚓‘不久’到底是什么意思呢？我们不明白他说什么。” ¹⁹耶稣看出他们要问他，就对他们说：“我说‘不久，你们将不再见到我；再过不久，你们还要见到我’，你们为这话彼此询问吗？ ²⁰我实实在在地告诉你们，你们将要痛哭，哀号，世人反要欢喜。你们将要忧愁，然而你们的忧愁要变成喜乐。 ²¹妇人生产的时候会忧愁，因为她的时候到了；但孩子一生出来，就不再记得那痛苦了，因为欢喜有一个人生在世上了。 ²²你们现在也是忧愁，但我要再见到你们，你们的心就会有喜乐了；这喜乐没有人能夺去。 ²³到那日，你们什么也不会问我了。我实实在在地告诉你们，你们奉我的名无论向父求什么，他会赐给你们⚓。 ²⁴直到现在，你们没有奉我的名求什么，如今你们求就必得着，使你们的喜乐得以满足。”

我已经胜过世界

²⁵“这些事，我是用比方对你们说的；时候将到，我不再用比方对你们说，而是要把父的事明白地告诉你们。 ²⁶到那日，你们要奉我的名祈求；我并不对你们说，我要为你们向父祈求。 ²⁷父自己爱你们，因为你们已经爱我，又信我是从上帝⚓而来的。 ²⁸我从父而来，到了世界⚓，又离开世界，到父那里去。”
²⁹门徒说：“你看，如今你是明说，不用比方了。 ³⁰现在我们晓得你凡事都知道，也不需要有人问你；从此我们信你是从上帝而来的。” ³¹耶稣回答他们：“现在你们信了吗？ ³²看哪，时候将到，其实已经到了，你们要分散，各归自己的地方，留下我独自一人；然而我不是独自一人，因为有父与我同在。 ³³我对你们说了这些事，是要使你们在我里面有平安。在世上你们有苦难，但你们要有勇气⚓，我已经胜过世界。”

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¹“These things I have spoken to you, that you ⚓should not be made to stumble. ²⚓They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming ⚓that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. ³And ⚓these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me. ⁴But these things I have told you, that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you of them.
And these things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.

The Work of the Holy Spirit

⁵“But now I ⚓go away to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’ ⁶But because I have said these things to you, ⚓sorrow has filled your heart. ⁷Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but ⚓if I depart, I will send Him to you. ⁸And when He has ⚓come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: ⁹⚓of sin, because they do not believe in Me; ¹⁰⚓of righteousness, ⚓because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; ¹¹⚓of judgment, because ⚓the ruler of this world is judged.
¹²“I still have many things to say to you, ⚓but you cannot bear them now. ¹³However, when He, ⚓the Spirit of truth, has come, ⚓He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. ¹⁴⚓He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. ¹⁵⚓All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.

Sorrow Will Turn to Joy

¹⁶“A ⚓little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me, ⚓because I go to the Father.”
¹⁷Then some of His disciples said among themselves, “What is this that He says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’; and, ‘because I go to the Father’?” ¹⁸They said therefore, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not know what He is saying.”
¹⁹Now Jesus knew that they desired to ask Him, and He said to them, “Are you inquiring among yourselves about what I said, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’? ²⁰Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and ⚓lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into ⚓joy. ²¹⚓A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. ²²Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and ⚓your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.
²³“And in that day you will ask Me nothing. ⚓Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. ²⁴Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, ⚓that your joy may be ⚓full.

Jesus Christ Has Overcome the World

²⁵“These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but I will tell you ⚓plainly about the Father. ²⁶In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you; ²⁷⚓for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and ⚓have believed that I came forth from God. ²⁸⚓I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.”
²⁹His disciples said to Him, “See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figure of speech! ³⁰Now we are sure that ⚓You know all things, and have no need that anyone should question You. By this ⚓we believe that You came forth from God.”
³¹Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? ³²⚓Indeed the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, ⚓each to his own, and will leave Me alone. And ⚓yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. ³³These things I have spoken to you, that ⚓in Me you may have peace. ⚓In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, ⚓I have overcome the world.”