Jeremiah’s Life Threatened

¹⁸ Now the Lord gave me knowledge of it, and I know it; for You showed me their doings. ¹⁹ But I was like a docile lamb brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised schemes against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, ^(A)and let us cut him off from ^(B)the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

²¹ “Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the men of ^(E)Anathoth who seek your life, saying, ^(F)‘Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord, lest you die by our hand’— ²² therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall ^(G)die by famine; ²³ and there shall be no remnant of them, for I will bring catastrophe on the men of Anathoth, even ^(H)the year of their punishment.’ ”

Sorrow Will Turn to Joy

¹⁶ “A ^(A)little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me, ^(B)because I go to the Father.”

¹⁷ Then some of His disciples said among themselves, “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’?” ¹⁸ They said therefore, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not ^[a]know what He is saying.”

¹⁹ Now Jesus knew that they desired to ask Him, and He said to them, “Are you inquiring among yourselves about what I said, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’? ²⁰ Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and ^(C)lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into ^(D)joy. ^21 (E)A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. ²² Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and ^(F)your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.

²³ “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. ^(G)Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. ²⁴ Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, ^(H)that your joy may be ^(I)full.

Jesus Christ Has Overcome the World

²⁵ “These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but I will tell you ^(J)plainly about the Father. ²⁶ In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you; ^27 (K)for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and ^(L)have believed that I came forth from God. ^28 (M)I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.”

²⁹ His disciples said to Him, “See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figure of speech! ³⁰ Now we are sure that ^(N)You know all things, and have no need that anyone should question You. By this ^(O)we believe that You came forth from God.”

³¹ Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? ^32 (P)Indeed the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, ^(Q)each to his ^[b]own, and will leave Me alone. And ^(R)yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. ³³ These things I have spoken to you, that ^(S)in Me you may have peace. ^(T)In the world you ^[c]will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, ^(U)I have overcome the world.”