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John 16:7-20 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

7. But I tell you the truth: it is expedient for you that I am going. For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you. But when I will have gone away, I will send him to you.

8. And when he has arrived, he will argue against the world, about sin and about justice and about judgment:

9. about sin, indeed, because they have not believed in me;

10. about justice, truly, because I am going to the Father, and you will not see me any longer;

11. about judgment, then, because the prince of this world has already been judged.

12. I still have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them now.

13. But when the Spirit of truth has arrived, he will teach the whole truth to you. For he will not be speaking from himself. Instead, whatever he will hear, he will speak. And he will announce to you the things that are to come.

14. He shall glorify me. For he will receive from what is mine, and he will announce it to you.

15. All things whatsoever that the Father has are mine. For this reason, I said that he will receive from what is mine and that he will announce it to you.

16. A little while, and then you will not see me. And again a little while, and you will see me. For I am going to the Father."

17. Then some of his disciples said to one another: "What is this, 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, 'For I am going to the Father?' "

18. And they said: "What is this, that he is saying, 'A little while?' We do not understand what he is saying."

19. But Jesus realized that they wanted to question him, and so he said to them: "Are you inquiring among yourselves about this, that I said: 'A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?'

20. Amen, amen, I say to you, that you shall mourn and weep, but the world will rejoice. And you shall be greatly saddened, yet your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

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