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even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him; you know him, for he dwells with you, and will be in you.

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

You heard me say to you, 'I go away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

But all this they will do to you on my account, because they do not know him who sent me.

and you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the beginning.

And they will do this because they have not known the Father, nor me.

But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you of them. "I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts.

concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;

concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no more;

concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

Some of his disciples said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me'; and, 'because I go to the Father'?"

When a woman is in travail she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child is born into the world.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from the Father.

I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they were standing and warming themselves; Peter also was with them, standing and warming himself.

The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he has made himself the Son of God."

So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, as the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.

They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him."