John 16-17

English Standard Version

16 “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. ²^(A)They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, ^(B)the hour is coming when ^(C)whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. ³And they will do these things ^(D)because they have not known the Father, nor me. ⁴But ^(E)I have said these things to you, that when ^(F)their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you.

The Work of the Holy Spirit

“I did not say these things to you from the beginning, ^(G)because I was with you. ⁵But now ^(H)I am going to him who sent me, and ^(I)none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ ⁶But because I have said these things to you, ^(J)sorrow has filled your heart. ⁷Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for ^(K)if I do not go away, ^(L)the Helper will not come to you. But ^(M)if ^(N)I go, ^(O)I will send him to you. ⁸^(P)And when he comes, he will ^(Q)convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: ⁹concerning sin, ^(R)because they do not believe in me; ¹⁰^(S)concerning righteousness, ^(T)because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; ¹¹^(U)concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world ^(V)is judged.

¹²“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. ¹³When ^(W)the Spirit of truth comes, ^(X)he will ^(Y)guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but ^(Z)whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. ¹⁴He will ^(AA)glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. ¹⁵^(AB)All that the Father has is mine; ^(AC)therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

Your Sorrow Will Turn into Joy

¹⁶^(AD)“A little while, and you will see me no longer; and ^(AE)again a little while, and you will see me.” ¹⁷So ^(AF)some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ^(AG)‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and, ^(AH)‘because I am going to the Father’?” ¹⁸So they were saying, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? ^(AI)We do not know what he is talking about.” ¹⁹^(AJ)Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’? ²⁰Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(AK)you will weep and lament, but ^(AL)the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but ^(AM)your sorrow will turn into joy. ²¹^(AN)When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. ²²^(AO)So also you have sorrow now, but ^(AP)I will see you again, and ^(AQ)your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. ²³^(AR)In that day you will ^(AS)ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(AT)whatever you ask of the Father in my name, ^(AU)he will give it to you. ²⁴Until now you have asked nothing in my name. ^(AV)Ask, and you will receive, ^(AW)that your joy may be full.

I Have Overcome the World

²⁵“I have said these things to you in figures of speech. ^(AX)The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father. ²⁶In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf; ²⁷^(AY)for the Father himself loves you, because ^(AZ)you have loved me and ^(BA)have believed that I came from God.^[a] ²⁸^(BB)I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now ^(BC)I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

²⁹His disciples said, “Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not ^(BD)using figurative speech! ³⁰Now we know that ^(BE)you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that ^(BF)you came from God.” ³¹Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? ³²Behold, ^(BG)the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when ^(BH)you will be scattered, each to his own home, and ^(BI)will leave me alone. ^(BJ)Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. ³³I have said these things to you, that ^(BK)in me you may have peace. ^(BL)In the world you will have ^(BM)tribulation. But ^(BN)take heart; ^(BO)I have overcome the world.”

The High Priestly Prayer

17 When Jesus had spoken these words, ^(BP)he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, ^(BQ)the hour has come; ^(BR)glorify your Son that the Son may ^(BS)glorify you, ²since ^(BT)you have given him authority over all flesh, ^(BU)to give eternal life to all ^(BV)whom you have given him. ³^(BW)And this is eternal life, ^(BX)that they know you, ^(BY)the only ^(BZ)true God, and ^(CA)Jesus Christ whom you have sent. ⁴I ^(CB)glorified you on earth, ^(CC)having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. ⁵And now, Father, ^(CD)glorify me in your own presence with the glory ^(CE)that I had with you ^(CF)before the world existed.

⁶^(CG)“I have manifested your name to the people ^(CH)whom you gave me out of the world. ^(CI)Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. ⁷Now they know that everything ^(CJ)that you have given me is from you. ⁸For I have given them ^(CK)the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that ^(CL)I came from you; and ^(CM)they have believed that you sent me. ⁹I am praying for them. ^(CN)I am not praying for the world but for those ^(CO)whom you have given me, for ^(CP)they are yours. ¹⁰^(CQ)All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and ^(CR)I am glorified in them. ¹¹And I am no longer in the world, but ^(CS)they are in the world, and ^(CT)I am coming to you. ^(CU)Holy Father, ^(CV)keep them in your name, ^(CW)which you have given me, ^(CX)that they may be one, ^(CY)even as we are one. ¹²^(CZ)While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have ^(DA)guarded them, and ^(DB)not one of them has been lost except ^(DC)the son of destruction, ^(DD)that the Scripture might be fulfilled. ¹³But now ^(DE)I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have ^(DF)my joy fulfilled in themselves. ¹⁴^(DG)I have given them your word, and ^(DH)the world has hated them ^(DI)because they are not of the world, ^(DJ)just as I am not of the world. ¹⁵I ^(DK)do not ask that you ^(DL)take them out of the world, but that you ^(DM)keep them from ^(DN)the evil one.^[b] ¹⁶^(DO)They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ¹⁷^(DP)Sanctify them^[c] in the truth; ^(DQ)your word is truth. ¹⁸^(DR)As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. ¹⁹And ^(DS)for their sake ^(DT)I consecrate myself,^[d] that they also ^(DU)may be sanctified^[e] in truth.

²⁰“I do not ^(DV)ask for these only, but also for those ^(DW)who will believe in me through their word, ²¹^(DX)that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that ^(DY)they also may be in ^(DZ)us, so that the world ^(EA)may believe that you have sent me. ²²^(EB)The glory that you have given me ^(EC)I have given to them, ^(ED)that they may be one even as we are one, ²³^(EE)I in them and you in me, ^(EF)that they may become perfectly one, ^(EG)so that the world may know that you sent me and ^(EH)loved them even as ^(EI)you loved me. ²⁴Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be ^(EJ)with me ^(EK)where I am, ^(EL)to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me ^(EM)before the foundation of the world. ²⁵^(EN)O righteous Father, even though ^(EO)the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. ²⁶^(EP)I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love ^(EQ)with which you have loved me may be in them, and ^(ER)I in them.”

Footnotes

John 16:27 Some manuscripts from the Father
John 17:15 Or from evil
John 17:17 Greek Set them apart (for holy service to God)
John 17:19 Or I sanctify myself; or I set myself apart (for holy service to God)
John 17:19 Greek may be set apart (for holy service to God)

Haggai 1-2

English Standard Version

The Command to Rebuild the Temple

1 ^(A)In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to ^(B)Zerubbabel the son of ^(C)Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to ^(D)Joshua the son of ^(E)Jehozadak, the high priest: ²“Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord.” ³Then the word of the Lord came ^(F)by the hand of Haggai the prophet, ⁴^(G)“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while ^(H)this house lies in ruins? ⁵Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: ^(I)Consider your ways. ⁶^(J)You have sown much, and harvested little. ^(K)You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who ^(L)earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.

⁷“Thus says the Lord of hosts: ^(M)Consider your ways. ⁸Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that ^(N)I may take pleasure in it and that ^(O)I may be glorified, says the Lord. ⁹^(P)You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, ^(Q)I blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house ^(R)that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. ¹⁰Therefore ^(S)the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. ¹¹And ^(T)I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on ^(U)the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and ^(V)on all their labors.”

The People Obey the Lord

¹²^(W)Then ^(X)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and ^(Y)Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all ^(Z)the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him. And the people feared the Lord. ¹³Then Haggai, the messenger of the Lord, spoke to the people with the Lord's message, ^(AA)“I am with you, declares the Lord.” ¹⁴And ^(AB)the Lord stirred up the spirit of ^(AC)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of ^(AD)Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all ^(AE)the remnant of the people. And they came and ^(AF)worked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, ¹⁵^(AG)on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

The Coming Glory of the Temple

2 ^(AH)In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet: ²“Speak now to ^(AI)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to ^(AJ)Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say, ³^(AK)‘Who is left among you who saw this house ^(AL)in its former glory? How do you see it now? ^(AM)Is it not as nothing in your eyes? ⁴Yet now ^(AN)be strong, O ^(AO)Zerubbabel, declares the Lord. ^(AP)Be strong, O ^(AQ)Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. ^(AR)Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the Lord. ^(AS)Work, for ^(AT)I am with you, declares the Lord of hosts, ⁵^(AU)according to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt. ^(AV)My Spirit remains in your midst. ^(AW)Fear not. ⁶For thus says the Lord of hosts: ^(AX)Yet once more, in a little while, ^(AY)I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land. ⁷And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and ^(AZ)I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord of hosts. ⁸^(BA)The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the Lord of hosts. ⁹^(BB)The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts. And ^(BC)in this place I will give peace, declares the Lord of hosts.’”

Blessings for a Defiled People

¹⁰^(BD)On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, ^(BE)in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, ¹¹“Thus says the Lord of hosts: ^(BF)Ask the priests about the law: ¹²‘If someone carries ^(BG)holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches with his fold bread or stew or wine or oil or any kind of food, does it become holy?’” The priests answered and said, ^(BH)“No.” ¹³Then Haggai said, ^(BI)“If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body ^(BJ)touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered and said, “It does become unclean.” ¹⁴Then Haggai answered and said, ^(BK)“So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the Lord, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean. ¹⁵Now then, ^(BL)consider from this day onward.^[a] Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the Lord, ¹⁶how did you fare? ^(BM)When^[b] one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty. ¹⁷^(BN)I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, ^(BO)yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord. ¹⁸^(BP)Consider from this day onward, ^(BQ)from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since ^(BR)the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid, ^(BS)consider: ¹⁹^(BT)Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on ^(BU)I will bless you.”

Zerubbabel Chosen as a Signet

²⁰The word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai ^(BV)on the twenty-fourth day of the month, ²¹“Speak to ^(BW)Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, ^(BX)I am about to shake the heavens and the earth, ²²and ^(BY)to overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and ^(BZ)overthrow the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall go down, ^(CA)every one by the sword of his brother. ²³On that day, declares the Lord of hosts, I will take you, O ^(CB)Zerubbabel ^(CC)my servant, the son of ^(CD)Shealtiel, declares the Lord, and make you ^(CE)like a^[c] signet ring, ^(CF)for I have chosen you, declares the Lord of hosts.”

Footnotes

Haggai 2:15 Or backward; also verse 18
Haggai 2:16 Probable reading (compare Septuagint); Hebrew Lord, since they were. When
Haggai 2:23 Hebrew the

Song of Solomon 5

English Standard Version

He

5 I ^(A)came to my garden, my ^(B)sister, my bride,
    I gathered my ^(C)myrrh with my spice,
    I ate my ^(D)honeycomb with my honey,
    I ^(E)drank my wine with my milk.

Others

Eat, ^(F)friends, drink,
and be drunk with love!

The Bride Searches for Her Beloved

She

²I slept, but my heart was awake.
A sound! My beloved is ^(G)knocking.
“Open to me, my ^(H)sister, my ^(I)love,
    my ^(J)dove, my ^(K)perfect one,
for my head is wet with dew,
    my ^(L)locks with the drops of the night.”
³^(M)I had put off my garment;
    how could I put it on?
I had ^(N)bathed my feet;
    how could I soil them?
⁴My beloved put his hand to the latch,
    and my heart was thrilled within me.
⁵I arose to open to my beloved,
    and my hands dripped with myrrh,
my fingers with ^(O)liquid myrrh,
    on the handles of the bolt.
⁶I opened to my beloved,
    but my beloved had turned and gone.
My soul failed me when he ^(P)spoke.
^(Q)I sought him, but found him not;
    ^(R)I called him, but he gave no answer.
⁷^(S)The watchmen found me
    as they went about in the city;
they beat me, they bruised me,
    they took away my veil,
    those watchmen of the walls.
⁸I ^(T)adjure you, O ^(U)daughters of Jerusalem,
    if you find my beloved,
that you tell him
    ^(V)I am sick with love.

Others

⁹What is your beloved more than another beloved,
O ^(W)most beautiful among women?
What is your beloved more than another beloved,
that you thus ^(X)adjure us?

The Bride Praises Her Beloved

She

¹⁰My beloved is radiant and ^(Y)ruddy,
    ^(Z)distinguished among ten thousand.
¹¹His head is the finest gold;
    ^(AA)his locks are wavy,
    black as a raven.
¹²His ^(AB)eyes are like doves
    beside streams of water,
bathed in milk,
    sitting beside a full pool.^[a]
¹³His ^(AC)cheeks are like ^(AD)beds of spices,
    mounds of sweet-smelling herbs.
His lips are ^(AE)lilies,
    dripping ^(AF)liquid myrrh.
¹⁴His arms are rods of gold,
    set with ^(AG)jewels.
His body is polished ivory,^[b]
    bedecked with ^(AH)sapphires.^[c]
¹⁵His legs are alabaster columns,
    set on bases of gold.
His appearance is like ^(AI)Lebanon,
    choice as the cedars.
¹⁶His ^(AJ)mouth^[d] is most sweet,
    and he is altogether desirable.
This is my beloved and this is my friend,
    O ^(AK)daughters of Jerusalem.