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Read the New Testament in 24 Weeks

A reading plan that walks through the entire New Testament in 24 weeks of daily readings.

Duration: 168 days

John 16-17

Chapter 16

¹“I have told you this so that you may not fall away. ²They will expel you from the synagogues; in fact, the hour^[a] is coming when everyone who kills you will think he is offering worship to God.^(A) ³They will do this because they have not known either the Father or me.^(B) ⁴I have told you this so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you.^(C)

Jesus’ Departure; Coming of the Advocate.^[b] “I did not tell you this from the beginning, because I was with you. ⁵But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you asks me,^[c] ‘Where are you going?’^(D) ⁶But because I told you this, grief has filled your hearts. ⁷But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go. For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you.^(E) But if I go, I will send him to you. ⁸^[d]And when he comes he will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and condemnation: ⁹sin, because they do not believe in me;^(F) ¹⁰righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me; ¹¹condemnation, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.^(G)

¹²“I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. ¹³^[e]But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth.^(H) He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming. ¹⁴He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. ¹⁵Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.

¹⁶“A little while and you will no longer see me, and again a little while later and you will see me.”^(I) ¹⁷So some of his disciples said to one another, “What does this mean that he is saying to us, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?” ¹⁸So they said, “What is this ‘little while’ [of which he speaks]? We do not know what he means.” ¹⁹Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Are you discussing with one another what I said, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’? ²⁰Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.^(J) ²¹When a woman is in labor, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived; but when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.^(K) ²²So you also are now in anguish. But I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.^(L) ²³On that day you will not question me about anything. Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.^(M) ²⁴Until now you have not asked anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

²⁵^[f]^(N)“I have told you this in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures but I will tell you clearly about the Father. ²⁶On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not tell you that I will ask the Father for you.^(O) ²⁷For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have come to believe that I came from God. ²⁸I came from the Father and have come into the world. Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”^(P) ²⁹His disciples said, “Now you are talking plainly, and not in any figure of speech. ³⁰Now we realize that you know everything and that you do not need to have anyone question you. Because of this we believe that you came from God.”^[g] ³¹Jesus answered them, “Do you believe now? ³²Behold, the hour is coming and has arrived when each of you will be scattered^[h] to his own home and you will leave me alone. But I am not alone, because the Father is with me.^(Q) ³³I have told you this so that you might have peace in me. In the world you will have trouble, but take courage, I have conquered the world.”^(R)

Chapter 17

The Prayer of Jesus.^[i] ¹When Jesus had said this, he raised his eyes to heaven^[j] and said, “Father, the hour has come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you,^(S) ²^[k]just as you gave him authority over all people,^(T) so that he may give eternal life to all you gave him. ³^[l]Now this is eternal life,^(U) that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ. ⁴I glorified you on earth by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do. ⁵Now glorify me, Father, with you, with the glory that I had with you before the world began.^(V)

⁶“I revealed your name^[m] to those whom you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. ⁷Now they know that everything you gave me is from you, ⁸because the words you gave to me I have given to them, and they accepted them and truly understood that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me. ⁹I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for the ones you have given me, because they are yours,^(W) ¹⁰and everything of mine is yours and everything of yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them.^(X) ¹¹And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are. ¹²When I was with them I protected them in your name that you gave me, and I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled.^(Y) ¹³But now I am coming to you. I speak this in the world so that they may share my joy completely.^(Z) ¹⁴I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.^(AA) ¹⁵^[n]I do not ask that you take them out of the world^(AB) but that you keep them from the evil one. ¹⁶They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. ¹⁷Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth.^(AC) ¹⁸As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.^(AD) ¹⁹And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth.

²⁰“I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, ²¹so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me.^(AE) ²²And I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one, ²³I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to perfection as one, that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them even as you loved me. ²⁴Father, they are your gift to me. I wish that where I am^[o] they also may be with me, that they may see my glory that you gave me, because you loved me before the foundation of the world.^(AF) ²⁵Righteous Father, the world also does not know you, but I know you, and they know that you sent me.^(AG) ²⁶I made known to them your name and I will make it known,^[p] that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in them.”

Footnotes

16:2 Hour: of persecution, not Jesus’ “hour” (see note on Jn 2:4).
16:4b–33 A duplicate of Jn 14:1–31 on departure and return.
16:5 Not one of you asks me: the difficulty of reconciling this with Simon Peter’s question in Jn 13:36 and Thomas’ words in Jn 14:5 strengthens the supposition that the last discourse has been made up of several collections of Johannine material.
16:8–11 These verses illustrate the forensic character of the Paraclete’s role: in the forum of the disciples’ conscience he prosecutes the world. He leads believers to see (a) that the basic sin was and is refusal to believe in Jesus; (b) that, although Jesus was found guilty and apparently died in disgrace, in reality righteousness has triumphed, for Jesus has returned to his Father; (c) finally, that it is the ruler of this world, Satan, who has been condemned through Jesus’ death (Jn 12:32).
16:13 Declare to you the things that are coming: not a reference to new predictions about the future, but interpretation of what has already occurred or been said.
16:25 See note on Jn 10:6. Here, possibly a reference to Jn 15:1–16 or Jn 16:21.
16:30 The reference is seemingly to the fact that Jesus could anticipate their question in Jn 16:19. The disciples naively think they have the full understanding that is the climax of “the hour” of Jesus’ death, resurrection, and ascension (Jn 16:25), but the only part of the hour that is at hand for them is their share in the passion (Jn 16:32).
16:32 You will be scattered: cf. Mk 14:27 and Mt 26:31, where both cite Zec 13:7 about the sheep being dispersed.
17:1–26 Climax of the last discourse(s). Since the sixteenth century, this chapter has been called the “high priestly prayer” of Jesus. He speaks as intercessor, with words addressed directly to the Father and not to the disciples, who supposedly only overhear. Yet the prayer is one of petition, for immediate (Jn 17:6–19) and future (Jn 17:20–21) disciples. Many phrases reminiscent of the Lord’s Prayer occur. Although still in the world (Jn 17:13), Jesus looks on his earthly ministry as a thing of the past (Jn 17:4, 12). Whereas Jesus has up to this time stated that the disciples could follow him (Jn 13:33, 36), now he wishes them to be with him in union with the Father (Jn 17:12–14).
17:1 The action of looking up to heaven and the address Father are typical of Jesus at prayer; cf. Jn 11:41 and Lk 11:2.
17:2 Another possible interpretation is to treat the first line of the verse as parenthetical and the second as an appositive to the clause that ends v 1: so that your son may glorify you (just as…all people), so that he may give eternal life….
17:3 This verse was clearly added in the editing of the gospel as a reflection on the preceding verse; Jesus nowhere else refers to himself as Jesus Christ.
17:6 I revealed your name: perhaps the name I AM; cf. Jn 8:24, 28, 58; 13:19.
17:15 Note the resemblance to the petition of the Lord’s Prayer, “deliver us from the evil one.” Both probably refer to the devil rather than to abstract evil.
17:24 Where I am: Jesus prays for the believers ultimately to join him in heaven. Then they will not see his glory as in a mirror but clearly (2 Cor 3:18; 1 Jn 3:2).
17:26 I will make it known: through the Advocate.

New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)

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