# John 16

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/john/16

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. I have told you these things so that you will not fall away.
2. They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
3. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.
4. But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
5. But now I am going to the one who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
6. Instead, because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your hearts.
7. But I am telling you the truth: it is for your good that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
8. And when he comes, he will convict the world about sin and about righteousness and about judgment:
9. about sin, because they do not believe in me;
10. about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, and you will no longer see me;
11. and about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
12. I still have many things to tell you, but you cannot bear them now.
13. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak on his own; he will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
14. He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
15. Everything that the Father has is mine. That is why I said that he takes from what is mine and will declare it to you.
16. In a little while you will no longer see me, and again in a little while you will see me.”
17. 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. So they kept saying, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We do not know what he is talking about.”
19. Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Are you asking one another what I meant when 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 tell you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice. You will be filled with sorrow, but your sorrow will turn into joy.
21. When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come. But when she has delivered the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.
22. So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
23. On that day you will not ask me anything. Truly, truly I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
24. Until now you have not asked for anything 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. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.
26. On that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf,
27. for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
28. I came 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, “Now you are speaking plainly and not using 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 from God.”
31. Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe?
32. Look, the 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 have trouble. But take courage; I have overcome the world.”

## Nearby chapters

[John 15](https://www.lumin.faith/read/john/15.md)
[John 17](https://www.lumin.faith/read/john/17.md)

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