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"These things they will do because they have not known the Father nor Me.

"But now I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, 'Where are You going?'

regarding sin, because they do not believe in Me;

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

"He will glorify Me, for He will take from Mine and will disclose it to you.

"A little while, and you no longer are going to see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me."

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

Jesus knew that they wanted to question Him, and He said to them, "Are you deliberating together about this, that I said, 'A little while, and you are not going to see Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me'?

"And on that day you will not question Me about anything. Truly, truly I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you.

for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

"Behold, an hour is coming, and has already come, for you to be scattered, each to his own home, and to leave Me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

"These things I have spoken to you so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world."

"I glorified You on the earth by accomplishing the work which You have given Me to do.

"And now You, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world existed.

"I have revealed Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have followed Your word.

"Now they have come to know that everything which You have given Me is from You;

for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me.

"I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but on the behalf of those whom You have given Me, because they are Yours;

"I am no longer going to be in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, so that they may be one just as We are.

"While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name, which You have given Me; and I guarded them, and not one of them perished except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.