1. ⌊Jesus continued,⌋ “I have said these things to you so that you won’t lose your faith.
2. You will be thrown out of synagogues. Certainly, the time is coming when people who murder you will think that they are serving God.
3. They will do these things to you because they haven’t known the Father or me.
4. But I’ve told you this so that when it happens you’ll remember what I’ve told you. I didn’t tell you this at first, because I was with you.
5. “Now I’m going to the one who sent me. Yet, none of you asks me where I’m going.
6. But because I’ve told you this, you’re filled with sadness.
7. However, I am telling you the truth: It’s good for you that I’m going away. If I don’t go away, the helper won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
8. He will come to convict the world of sin, to show the world what has God’s approval, and to convince the world that God judges it.
9. He will convict the world of sin, because people don’t believe in me.
10. He will show the world what has God’s approval, because I’m going to the Father and you won’t see me anymore.