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That Spirit the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. You know Him, because He remains by your side and is in you.

Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me: because I live, you also shall live.

"You heard me say to you, `I am going away, and yet I am coming to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I am.

No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you.

But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account of your bearing my name--because they do not know Him who sent me.

And you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the first.

And they will do these things because they have failed to recognize the Father and to discover who I am.

But I have spoken these things to you in order that when the time for their accomplishment comes you may remember them, and may recollect that I told you. I did not, however, tell you all this at first, because I was still with you.

But grief has filled your hearts because I have said all this to you.

of sin, because they do not believe in me;

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

of judgement, because the Prince of this world is under sentence.

He will glorify me, because He will take of what is mine and will make it known to you.

Some of His disciples therefore said to one another, "What does this mean which He is telling us, `A little while and you do not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me,' and `Because I am going to the Father'?"

A woman, when she is in labour, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has given birth to the babe, she no longer remembers the pain, because of her joy at a child being born into the world.

for the Father Himself holds you dear, because you have held me dear and have believed that I came from the Father's presence.

"I am making request for them: for the world I do not make any request, but for those whom Thou hast given me. Because they are Thine,

I have given them Thy Message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

"Father, those whom Thou hast given me--I desire that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see the glory--my glory--my gift from Thee, which Thou hast given me because Thou didst love me before the creation of the world.