John 16
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1-4a “I’ve told you these things to prepare you for rough times ahead. They are going to throw you out of the meeting places. There will even come a time when anyone who kills you will think he’s doing God a favor. They will do these things because they never really understood the Father. I’ve told you these things so that when the time comes and they start in on you, you’ll be well-warned and ready for them.
The Friend Will Come
4b-7 “I didn’t tell you this earlier because I was with you every day. But now I am on my way to the One who sent me. Not one of you has asked, ‘Where are you going?’ Instead, the longer I’ve talked, the sadder you’ve become. So let me say it again, this truth: It’s better for you that I leave. If I don’t leave, the Friend won’t come. But if I go, I’ll send him to you.
8-11“When he comes, he’ll expose the error of the godless world’s view of sin, righteousness, and judgment: He’ll show them that their refusal to believe in me is their basic sin; that righteousness comes from above, where I am with the Father, out of their sight and control; that judgment takes place as the ruler of this godless world is brought to trial and convicted.
12-15“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t handle them now. But when the Friend comes, the Spirit of the Truth, he will take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is. He won’t draw attention to himself, but will make sense out of what is about to happen and, indeed, out of all that I have done and said. He will honor me; he will take from me and deliver it to you. Everything the Father has is also mine. That is why I’ve said, ‘He takes from me and delivers to you.’
16“In a day or so you’re not going to see me, but then in another day or so you will see me.”
Joy Like a River Overflowing
17-18That stirred up a hornet’s nest of questions among the disciples: “What’s he talking about: ‘In a day or so you’re not going to see me, but then in another day or so you will see me’? And, ‘Because I’m on my way to the Father’? What is this ‘day or so’? We don’t know what he’s talking about.”
19-20Jesus knew they were dying to ask him what he meant, so he said, “Are you trying to figure out among yourselves what I meant when I said, ‘In a day or so you’re not going to see me, but then in another day or so you will see me’? Then fix this firmly in your minds: You’re going to be in deep mourning while the godless world throws a party. You’ll be sad, very sad, but your sadness will develop into gladness.
21-23a “When a woman gives birth, she has a hard time, there’s no getting around it. But when the baby is born, there is joy in the birth. This new life in the world wipes out memory of the pain. 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. You’ll no longer be so full of questions.
23b-24 “This is what I want you to do: Ask the Father for whatever is in keeping with the things I’ve revealed to you. 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!
25-28“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. 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. 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. First, I left the Father and arrived in the world; now I leave the world and travel to the Father.”
29-30His disciples said, “Finally! You’re giving it to us straight, in plain talk—no more figures of speech. 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.”
31-33Jesus answered them, “Do you finally believe? 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. I’ve told you all this so that trusting me, you will be unshakable and assured, deeply at peace. In this godless world you will continue to experience difficulties. But take heart! I’ve conquered the world.”
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Yochanan 16
16
1I have spoken these things to you that no cause of michshol (stumbling, falling) may trip you up.
2They will put you under the cherem ban in the shuls. A sha'ah (hour, time) is coming when everyone who kills you will suppose they are offering avodas kodesh to Hashem.#16:2 Isa 66:5
3And these things they will do because they did not have da'as of HaAv or of me.
4But these things I have spoken to you, that, when the sha'ah of these things comes, you might have zikaron (remembrance) of these things, that I told you. But I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.
5But now I am going to the One who sent me. And none of you asks me, Where are you going?
6But because I have spoken these things to you, agmat nefesh (grief) has filled your levavot (heart).
7But I tell HaEmes (the truth), it is better for you that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Melitz Yosher (Praklit, Advocate, Counselor, Helper in Court) will not come to you. But if go, I will send Him (the Ruach Hakodesh) to you.
8And having come, that one will expose and convict the Olam Hazeh concerning Chet and concerning Tzedek and concerning Mishpat:
9Concerning Chet (Sin), because they do not have emunah in me;
10Concerning Tzedek,#16:10 Dan 9:24 because I go to HaAv and no longer do you see me;
11And concerning Mishpat (Judgment), because the Sar HaOlam Hazeh has been judged.
12Yet many things I have to tell you, but you are not able to bear them now.
13But when that One has come, the Ruach Hakodesh, the Ruach HaEmes, He will guide you in all truth.#16:13 Ps 25:5 For He will not speak on His own authority, but what things He will hear, He will speak, and the things that are to come He will announce to you.
14That One will give kavod to me, because He will receive of what is mine, and will announce it to you.
15All things which HaAv has are mine; therefore, I said that of mine He receives and will announce it to you.
16A little time and you no longer see me. And again a little time, and you will see me.
17Therefore, some of the talmidim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to one another, What is this which he says to us? A little time and you do not see me. And, again, A little time and you will see me? And, Because I go to HaAv?
18Therefore, they were saying, What is this, which he says, A little time? We do not have da'as of what he says.
19Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach knew that they were wanting to ask him. And he said to them, About this you inquire of one another that I said, A little time and you do not see me. And, again, a little time and you will see me?
20Omein, omein, I say to you, that there will be bechi (weeping) and avelut (mourning), but the Olam Hazeh will have simcha. You will have agmat nefesh, but your agmat nefesh (grief) will become simcha.#16:20 Ps 30:5 [6]
21The isha (woman) when she gives birth, has agmat nefesh (grief),#16:21 Isa 13:8; 21:3; 26:17; Mic 4:9; Hos 13:13 because the sha'ah (hour, time) of her has come. But when she gives birth to the yeled, she no longer has zikaron of the Tribulation because of the naches that an ish was born into the Olam Hazeh.
22Therefore, you have agmat nefesh (grief) now,#16:22 Jer 31:12 but again I will see you, and your levavot will have rejoicing#16:22 Isa 66:14 TARGUM HASHIVIM and the simcha of you no one takes from you.
23And on that day you will not ask me anything. Omein, omein, I say to you, whatever you ask HaAv b'Shem of me, He will give it to you.
24Until now you did not ask anything b'Shem of me. Ask and you will receive that the simcha of you may be shleimah.
25Regarding these things I have spoken figuratively.#16:25 Ps 78:2; Ezek 20:49 A sha'ah comes when no longer I will speak figuratively to you, but will announce plainly to you concerning HaAv.
26On that day b'Shem of me you will ask, and I do not say to you that I will ask HaAv concerning you.
27For HaAv Himself has ahavah for you, because you have ahavah for me and have emunah that I came forth from HaAv.
28I came from HaAv and I have come into the Olam Hazeh. Again I leave the Olam Hazeh and go to HaAv.
29The talmidim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach say, Hinei, see now you speak plainly and no longer figuratively do you speak.
30Now we know that you have da'as of all things, and you have no need that any test you with any she'elah (question). By this we have emunah that you came forth from Hashem.#16:30 1Kgs 17:24
31He answered them, Do you have emunah?
32Hinei a sha'ah (hour, time) is coming and has come, that you are SCATTERED#16:32 Zech 13:7 each one to his own home, and you leave me alone, but I am not alone, because HaAv is with me.
33These things I have spoken to you that in me you may have shalom. In the Olam Hazeh you have tribulation; but have lev same'ach. I have conquered the Olam Hazeh.
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