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 But when the Counselor comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness to me; 27 and you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the beginning.

16 “I have said all this to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues; indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. 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.

The Work of the Spirit

“I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.