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the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.

You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you.

"I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me—and I in him—bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

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

They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

But I have told you these things so that when their time comes, you will remember that I told you about them. "I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.

Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you.

concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;

concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer;

and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.

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

Then some of his disciples said to one another, "What is the meaning of what he is saying, ‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me,' and, ‘because I am going to the Father'?"

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

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

Now we know that you know everything and do not need anyone to ask you anything. Because of this we believe that you have come from God."