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But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me.

You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

But 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.

But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.

of sin, because they don't believe in me;

of righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you see me no more;

of judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father?'"

A woman, when she is in travail, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a child is born into the world.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.

Behold, the time comes, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."

Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation, so that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Then because of the Jews' Preparation (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.

They told her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don't know where they have laid him."

Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed."

He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.

When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.