26 “When the [a](A)Helper comes, (B)whom I will send to you from the Father, namely, (C)the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, (D)He will testify about Me, 27 and [b](E)you are testifying as well, because you have been with Me (F)from the beginning.

Jesus’ Warning

16 (G)These things I have spoken to you so that you will not [c]be (H)led into sin. They will [d](I)ban you from the synagogue, yet (J)an hour is coming for everyone (K)who kills you to think that he is offering a [e]service to God. These things they will do (L)because they have not known the Father nor Me. But these things I have spoken to you, (M)so that when their hour comes, you [f]may remember that I told you of them. However, I did not say these things to you (N)at the beginning, because I was with you.

Footnotes

  1. John 15:26 Or Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor
  2. John 15:27 Or (command) testify, you as well
  3. John 16:1 Or let yourselves be led; or fall away (in apostasy)
  4. John 16:2 Or excommunicate
  5. John 16:2 I.e., as an act of worship
  6. John 16:4 Or will remember them, that I told you

26 “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father—that one will testify about me. 27 And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

Persecution of Disciples Predicted

16 “I have said these things to you so that you will not fall away. They will expel you from the synagogue,[a] but an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think they are offering service to God. And they will do these things because they do not know the Father or me. But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you about them.

Jesus’ Departure and the Coming of the Holy Spirit

“And I have not said these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

Footnotes

  1. John 16:2 Literally “they will make you expelled from the synagogue”