John 16:1-7

1“I have told you these things to keep you from stumbling.

2They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

3They will do these things because they haven’t known the Father or me.

4But I have told you these things so that when their time comes you will remember I told them to you. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

5But now I am going away to him who sent me, and not one of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

6Yet, because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

7Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send him to you.