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You have heard me tell you, 'I am going away, but I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I am.John 5:18; 10:30; 16:16; 20:17; Philippians 2:6;">[xr]

I will not talk with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me.has nothing in me">[fn]John 12:31; 16:11;">[xr]

I am the vine, you are the branches. The one who abides in me while I abide in himand I in him">[fn] produces much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.Hosea 14:8; Philippians 1:11; 4:13;">[xr]

If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you can ask for anything you want, and it will be yours.John 14:13-14; 15:16; 16:23;">[xr]

No one showshas">[fn] greater love than when he lays down his life for his friends.John 10:11,15; Romans 5:7-8; Ephesians 5:2; 1 John 3:16;">[xr]

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have any sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.John 9:41; Romans 1:20; James 4:17;">[xr]

But this happened so thatBut so that">[fn] the word written in their law might be fulfilled: 'They hated me for no reason.'Psalm 35:19; 69:4">[fn]Psalm 35:19; 69:4;">[xr]

However, I am telling you the truth. It is for your advantage that I am going away, for if I do not go away the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.John 7:39; 15:26; Acts 2:33; Ephesians 4:8;">[xr]

Yet when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own accord, but will speak whatever he hears and will declare to you the things that are to come.John 14:17,26; 15:26; John 14:17,26, 1 John 2:20,27;">[xr]

He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

When a woman is in labor she has pain, for her hour has come. Yet when she has given birth to her child, she doesn't remember the agony anymore because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.Isaiah 26:17;">[xr]

On that day, you will not ask me for anything. Truly, truly I tell you, whatever you ask the Father for in my name, he will give it to you.ask the Father for, he will give it to you in my name">[fn]Matthew 7:7; John 14:13; 15:16;">[xr]

So far you haven't asked for anything in my name. Keep asking and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete."John 15:11;">[xr]

For the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.from the Father">[fn]John 3:13; 17:8;">[xr]

Listen, the hour is coming, indeed it has already come, when you will be scattered, each of you to his own home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.Matthew 26:31; Mark 14:27; John 8:29; 14:10-11; 20:10;">[xr]

because the words that you gave me I have given to them. They have received them and know for sure that I came from you. And they have believed that you sent me.John 8:28; 12:49;">[xr]

I am asking on their behalf. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you gave me, for they are yours.1 John 5:19;">[xr]

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, for they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.John 8:16,23; 15:18-19; 17:8; 1 John 3:13;">[xr]

It is for their sakes that I sanctify myself, so that they, too, may be sanctified by the truth.1 Corinthians 1:2,30; 1 Thessalonians 4:7; Hebrews 10:10;">[xr]

I made your name known to them, and will continue to make it known, so that the love you have for methe love with which you loved me">[fn] may be in them and I myself may be in them."John 15:9,15; 17:6;">[xr]