John 13:19

New Catholic Bible

¹⁹“I tell you this now,
before it occurs,
so that when it does occur,
you may believe that I am.^[a]

John 13:19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹⁹I tell you this now, before it occurs, so that when it does occur you may believe that I am he.^[a]^(A)

⁴But I have told you this
so that when the hour arrives
you may remember that I forewarned you about them.

“I did not tell you all this previously
because I was with you.

John 16:4 The disciples have to overcome sadness at the departure and absence of Jesus so that they may understand the meaning of the event: passage to glory, gift of the Spirit, and the beginning of a new era in the world. But until the end of history the trial of Jesus will not stop, and the disciples will have to testify to him in a world where unbelief appears unceasingly.
The testimony of Christians can never stop; such testimony does not depend on the intelligence and the strength of people but on the action of the Spirit, who unveils to Christians, in faith, the glory of Christ and the view that history takes of this light (Christ). It is not a matter of a new revelation but of a discovery of what the words, actions, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus mean for each era: the truth of God that denounces the falsehood of sin, the goodness of God that denounces evil, and the condemnation of the forces that enslave people. The Spirit is the Paraclete: defender of Jesus in the heart of believers, defender of believers facing unbelief and refusal of the light—that is, the world in the sense the world is taken here (Jn 15:5-15). The Spirit is strength, support, light (see Jn 14:16).

⁴But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you about them.

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

New Catholic Bible (NCB)

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE)