The Life of Jesus

But they will do all this to you on my account, because they don’t know the One who sent me.

“If I had not come and spoken to them, they wouldn’t be guilty of sin; but now, they have no excuse for their sin.

Whoever hates me hates my Father also.

If I had not done in their presence works which no one else ever did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now, they have seen them and have hated both me and my Father.

But this has happened in order to fulfill the words in their Torah which read, ‘They hated me for no reason at all.’

“When the Counselor comes, whom I will send you from the Father — the Spirit of Truth, who keeps going out from the Father — he will testify on my behalf.

And you testify too, because you have been with me from the outset.

“I have told you these things so that you won’t be caught by surprise.

They will ban you from the synagogue; in fact, the time will come when anyone who kills you will think he is serving God!

They will do these things because they have understood neither the Father nor me.

But I have told you this, so that when the time comes for it to happen, you will remember that I told you. I didn’t tell you this at first, because I was with you.

But now I am going to the One who sent me. “Not one of you is asking me, ‘Where are you going?’

Instead, because I have said these things to you, you are overcome with grief.

But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I don’t go away, the comforting Counselor will not come to you. However, if I do go, I will send him to you.

“When he comes, he will show that the world is wrong about sin, about righteousness and about judgment —

about sin, in that people don’t put their trust in me;

about righteousness, in that I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me;

about judgment, in that the ruler of this world has been judged.

“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

However, when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own initiative but will say only what he hears. He will also announce to you the events of the future.

He will glorify me, because he will receive from what is mine and announce it to you.

Everything the Father has is mine; this is why I said that he receives from what is mine and will announce it to you.

“In a little while, you will see me no more; then, a little while later, you will see me.”

At this, some of the talmidim said to one another, “What is this that he’s telling us, ‘In a little while, you won’t see me; then, a little while later, you will see me’? and, ‘I am going to the Father’?”

They went on saying, “What is this ‘little while’? We don’t understand what he’s talking about.”