WPNT(i)
1 “I have spoken these things to you to avoid your being caused to stumble
2 —they will excommunicate you; indeed, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering God service!
3 And they will do these things because they haven’t known either the Father or me.
4 Now I have told you these things so that when the time comes you may remember that I told you about them; I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.
5 “Now then, I am going away to Him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
6 But because I have said these things to you sorrow has filled your heart.
7 Nevertheless I am telling you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Helper will not come to you, but if I do go I will send Him to you.
8 “Now when He comes he will convict the world about sin and about righteousness and about judgment:
9 first about sin, because they don’t believe into me;
10 then about righteousness, because I am going away to my Father and you will no longer see me;
11 then about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
12 “I still have many things to say to you but you can’t bear it now.
13 However, when He, the Spirit of the Truth, has come, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own, but He will speak whatever He hears. He will also communicate to you the things that are coming.
14 He will glorify me because He will take of what is mine and communicate it to you.
15 All that the Father has is mine; that’s why I said that He takes from what is mine and will communicate it to you.
16 “In just a little you won’t see me, and in another little you will see me, because I am going to the Father.”
17 Then some of His disciples said among themselves “What is this that He’s telling us, ‘In just a little you won’t see me, and in another little you will see me,’ and because ‘I am going to the Father’?”
18 So they said: “What is this ‘little’ that He mentions? We don’t know what He’s talking about.”
19 Well Jesus knew that they were wanting to question Him and said to them: “Are you inquiring among yourselves about what I said, ‘In just a little you won’t see me, and in another little you will see me’?