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In a little while the world will see me no more, but you will see me; and because I live, you also will live.

I cannot talk with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

I do not call you servants any longer, because servants do not know what their master is doing. Instead, I call you friends, because I have told you everything I heard from my Father.

But they will do all this to you because you are mine; for they do not know the one who sent me.

And you, too, will speak about me, because you have been with me from the very beginning.

People will do these things to you because they have not known either the Father or me.

But I am telling you the truth: it is better for you that I go away, because if I do not go, the Helper will not come to you. But if I do go away, then I will send him to you.

They are wrong about sin, because they do not believe in me;

they are wrong about what is right, because I am going to the Father and you will not see me any more;

and they are wrong about judgment, because the ruler of this world has already been judged.

He will give me glory, because he will take what I say and tell it to you.

Some of his disciples asked among themselves, "What does this mean? He tells us that in a little while we will not see him, and then a little while later we will see him; and he also says, ‘It is because I am going to the Father.'

When a woman is about to give birth, she is sad because her hour of suffering has come; but when the baby is born, she forgets her suffering, because she is happy that a baby has been born into the world.

for the Father himself loves you. He loves you because you love me and have believed that I came from God.

The time is coming, and is already here, when all of you will be scattered, each of you to your own home, and I will be left all alone. But I am not really alone, because the Father is with me.

I gave them your message, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

"I pray not only for them, but also for those who believe in me because of their message.

Judas, the traitor, knew where it was, because many times Jesus had met there with his disciples.

The crowd answered back, "We have a law that says he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God."

Jesus answered, "You have authority over me only because it was given to you by God. So the man who handed me over to you is guilty of a worse sin."