Bible Gateway passage: John 16 - New International Version (2024)

16“All this^(A) I have told you so that you will not fall away.^{(B) 2}They will put you out of the synagogue;^(C) in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.^{(D) 3}They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.^{(E) 4}I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember^(F) that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you,^{(G) 5}but now I am going to him who sent me.^(H) None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’^{(I) 6}Rather, you are filled with grief^(J) because I have said these things. ⁷But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate^(K) will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.^{(L) 8}When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: ⁹about sin,^(M) because people do not believe in me; ¹⁰about righteousness,^(N) because I am going to the Father,^(O) where you can see me no longer; ¹¹and about judgment, because the prince of this world^(P) now stands condemned.

¹²“I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.^{(Q) 13}But when he, the Spirit of truth,^(R) comes, he will guide you into all the truth.^(S) He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. ¹⁴He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. ¹⁵All that belongs to the Father is mine.^(T) That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”

The Disciples’ Grief Will Turn to Joy

¹⁶Jesus went on to say, “In a little while^(U) you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.”^(V)

¹⁷At this, some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me,’^(W) and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”^{(X) 18}They kept asking, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We don’t understand what he is saying.”

¹⁹Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me’? ²⁰Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn^(Y) while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.^{(Z) 21}A woman giving birth to a child has pain^(AA) because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. ²²So with you: Now is your time of grief,^(AB) but I will see you again^(AC) and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.^{(AD) 23}In that day^(AE) you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.^{(AF) 24}Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive,^(AG) and your joy will be complete.^(AH)

²⁵“Though I have been speaking figuratively,^(AI) a time is coming^(AJ) when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father. ²⁶In that day you will ask in my name.^(AK) I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. ²⁷No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me^(AL) and have believed that I came from God.^{(AM) 28}I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”^(AN)

²⁹Then Jesus’ disciples said, “Now you are speaking clearly and without figures of speech.^{(AO) 30}Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe^(AP) that you came from God.”^(AQ)

³¹“Do you now believe?” Jesus replied. ³²“A time is coming^(AR) and in fact has come when you will be scattered,^(AS) each to your own home. You will leave me all alone.^(AT) Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me.^(AU)

³³“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.^(AV) In this world you will have trouble.^(AW) But take heart! I have overcome^(AX) the world.”

Cross references

1. John 16:1 : Jn 15:18-27
2. John 16:1 : Mt 11:6
3. John 16:2 : Jn 9:22; 12:42
4. John 16:2 : Isa 66:5; Ac 26:9, 10; Rev 6:9
5. John 16:3 : Jn 15:21; 17:25; 1Jn 3:1
6. John 16:4 : Jn 13:19; 14:29
7. John 16:4 : Jn 15:27
8. John 16:5 : ver 10, 17, 28; Jn 7:33
9. John 16:5 : Jn 13:36; 14:5
10. John 16:6 : ver 22
11. John 16:7 : Jn 14:16, 26; 15:26
12. John 16:7 : Jn 7:39; 14:26
13. John 16:9 : Jn 15:22
14. John 16:10 : Ac 3:14; 7:52; Ro 1:17; 3:21, 22; 1Pe 3:18
15. John 16:10 : S ver 5
16. John 16:11 : S Jn 12:31
17. John 16:12 : Mk 4:33; 1Co 3:2
18. John 16:13 : S Jn 14:17
19. John 16:13 : Ps 25:5; Jn 14:26
20. John 16:15 : Jn 17:10
21. John 16:16 : S Jn 7:33
22. John 16:16 : ver 22; Jn 14:18-24
23. John 16:17 : ver 16
24. John 16:17 : ver 5
25. John 16:20 : Mk 16:10; Lk 23:27
26. John 16:20 : Jn 20:20
27. John 16:21 : Isa 13:8; 21:3; 26:17; Mic 4:9; 1Th 5:3
28. John 16:22 : ver 6
29. John 16:22 : ver 16
30. John 16:22 : ver 20; Jer 31:12
31. John 16:23 : ver 26; Jn 14:20
32. John 16:23 : S Mt 7:7
33. John 16:24 : S Mt 7:7
34. John 16:24 : S Jn 3:29
35. John 16:25 : ver 29; Ps 78:2; Eze 20:49; Mt 13:34; Mk 4:33, 34; Jn 10:6
36. John 16:25 : ver 2
37. John 16:26 : ver 23, 24
38. John 16:27 : Jn 14:21, 23
39. John 16:27 : ver 30; S Jn 13:3
40. John 16:28 : ver 5, 10, 17; Jn 13:3
41. John 16:29 : S ver 25
42. John 16:30 : 1Ki 17:24
43. John 16:30 : ver 27; S Jn 13:3
44. John 16:32 : ver 2, 25
45. John 16:32 : Mt 26:31
46. John 16:32 : Mt 26:56
47. John 16:32 : Jn 8:16, 29
48. John 16:33 : S Jn 14:27
49. John 16:33 : Jn 15:18-21
50. John 16:33 : Ro 8:37; 1Jn 4:4; 5:4; Rev 2:7, 11, 17, 26; 3:5, 12, 21; 21:7