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They will do these things because they haven't known the Father or Me.

But I have told you these things so that when their time comes you may remember I told them to you. I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

Yet, because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don't go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send Him to you.

About sin, because they do not believe in Me;

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

and about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

He will glorify Me, because He will take from what is Mine and declare it to you.

Therefore some of His disciples said to one another, "What is this He tells us: ‘A little while and you will not see Me; again a little while and you will see Me' ; and, ‘because I am going to the Father' ?"

When a woman is in labor she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person 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.

Look: An hour is coming, and has come, when each of you will be scattered to his own home, and you will leave Me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

because the words that You gave Me, I have given them. They have received them and have known for certain that I came from You. They have believed that You sent Me.

I pray for them. I am not praying for the world but for those You have given Me, because they are Yours.

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

Father, I desire those You have given Me to be with Me where I am. Then they will see My glory, which You have given Me because You loved Me before the world's foundation.

Judas, who betrayed Him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with His disciples.

Now the slaves and the temple police had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold. They were standing there warming themselves, and Peter was standing with them, warming himself.

"We have a law," the Jews replied to him, "and according to that law He must die, because He made Himself the Son of God."

So then, because of them, he handed Him over to be crucified. Therefore they took Jesus away.