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come and talked to them they would not have had sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the deeds no one else did, they would not have had sin. But now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. But this happens so that what is written in their law may be fulfilled :

They hated me without a cause.

But when the Helper has come whom I will send you from the Father, that is, the Spirit of Truth who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. And you also are bearing witness because you have been with me from the beginning.

I have told you this so that you may not be offended. They will excommunicate you. Yes, the time is coming when whoever kills you will think he is doing God service. And they will do these things because they never became acquainted with the Father nor me. But I have told you this, so that when the time has come you may remember I told you about it. I did not tell you this from the beginning, because I was with you. But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, Where are you going? But because I have told you this, sorrow has filled your heart.

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yet I tell you the truth, It is expedient for you that I go away. For if I do not go away the Helper will not come to you. But if I go I will send him to you. So when he has come he will convict the world of sin, and of goodness, and of judgment. Of sin, because they do not believe in me. Of goodness, because I am going to the Father and you do not see me any more. Of judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. I have still many things to tell you, but you cannot bear them now. But when the Spirit of Truth has come he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak on his own authority. But whatever he hears he will talk about and will announce to you the things to come. He will honor me. For he will take of mine and will announce it to you. Everything the Father has is mine. So I said he is taking of mine and will announce it to you.

A little while and you are looking at me no longer, And again a little while and you will see me."

"What is this he is saying to us?" said some of his disciples to each other. "A little while and you are not looking at me, and again a little while and you will see me, and, Because I am going to the Father." So they said: "What is this he is

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saying, A little while? We do not know what he

is saying."

Jesus got to know they wanted to ask him, so he said to them:

"Do you inquire of each other about what I said:

A little while and you are not looking at me,
And again a little while and you will see me?

Most truly I tell you, you will weep and lament but the world will rejoice. And you will be sorrowful. But your sorrow will be turned into joy. A woman when she is in labor has pain because her time has come. But when the little one has been born she no longer remembers the anguish for the joy that a man has been born into the world. So you now have pain. But I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice and no one shall rob you of your joy.

Be

In that day you will ask me no question at all. Most truly I tell you, If you shall ask anything of the Father he will give it to you in my name. fore this you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you shall receive so that your happiness may be complete.

My talking to you has been in dark sayings. The time is coming when I shall no longer talk to

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you in dark sayings, but shall tell you plainly about the Father. In that day you will ask in my name. And I do not tell you I will pray the Father for you. For the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed I came out from beside the Father. I came out of the Father and have come into the world. Again I am leaving the world and am going to the Father."

"Why, now you are talking plainly and not saying any dark saying. Now we know you know

everything and do not

need any one to ask you.

By this we believe you came out from God."

"Do you now believe? Why, the time is coming, yes, it has already come, when you will be scattered, every one to his own, and will leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. I have talked about these things with you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation. But take courage. I have overcome the world."

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Jesus talked about these things and lifted eyes to heaven.

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Father," he said, "the time has come. Honor thy Son so that the Son may honor thee.

Thou

gavest him authority over all flesh, so that he should

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give eternal life to all those whom thou hast given him. And the eternal life is this, to become acquainted with thee, the only true God, and Jesus. Christ whom thou didst send. I honored thee on earth. I have finished the work thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, honor me with thine own self with the honor I had with thee before the world was. I made known thy name to the men thou gavest me out of the world. They were thine and thou gavest them to me out of the world. Now they understand that everything thou hast given me is from thee. For I have told them what thou didst tell me, and they accepted it and became truly acquainted with the fact that I came out from thee and they believed thou didst send me. I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those thou hast given me. For they are thine. And all mine are thine and thine are mine, and I am honored in them.

longer in the world, but these are

And I am no in the world,

and I am coming to thee. Holy Father, keep in thy name those whom thou hast given me, so that they may be one just as we are. While I was with them I kept in thy name those whom thou hast given me, and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition so that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to thee and I am talking about these things in the