Persecution Foretold
(Acts 23:12–22)
“I have told you these things so that you will not fall away. 1Pe 2:8Mat 13:21Mat 26:31-33Jhn 15:18-27Mat 24:10Jhn 16:4Rom 14:21Mat 11:6 They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. Jhn 9:22Act 26:9-11Rom 10:2-3Act 22:3-4Mat 10:28Jhn 12:42Rev 6:9Act 22:19-23 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me. Jhn 15:21Jhn 17:252Th 1:82Th 2:10-12Jhn 8:19Jhn 8:551Jn 3:1Jhn 17:3 But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. Jhn 14:29Mrk 13:23Jhn 13:19Jhn 17:12-13Mat 9:15Act 9:16Mat 24:252Pe 1:14
The Promise of the Holy Spirit
(John 14:15–26)
Now, however, I am going to Him who sent Me; yet none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’ Jhn 13:36Jhn 7:33Jhn 16:28Eph 4:7-11Heb 1:3Jhn 14:4-6Jhn 16:10Jhn 17:4 Instead, your hearts are filled with sorrow because I have told you these things. Jhn 16:20-22Jhn 20:11-15Luk 22:45Luk 24:17Jhn 14:1Jhn 14:27-28 But I tell you the truth, it is for your benefit that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate 1will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. Jhn 14:26Jhn 14:16-17Jhn 15:26Act 2:33Act 1:4-5Jhn 7:39Luk 24:49Rom 8:28
And when He comes, He will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: Jud 1:15Act 2:37Zec 12:10Act 16:29-301Co 14:24Jhn 8:9Jhn 8:46 in regard to sin, because they do not believe in Me; Jhn 15:22-25Jhn 12:47-48Jhn 8:23-24Heb 3:12Mrk 16:16Act 2:22-38Jhn 8:42-47Act 3:14-19 in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me; 2Co 5:211Pe 3:18Rom 10:3-41Co 1:301Ti 3:16Act 3:14Jer 23:5-6Php 3:7-9 and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world has been condemned. Jhn 12:311Jn 3:8Col 2:15Heb 2:142Co 4:4Jhn 14:30Isa 49:24-26Rev 12:7-10
I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it. Mrk 4:33Jhn 15:151Co 3:1-2Act 1:3Heb 5:11-14Jhn 14:30 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. Jhn 14:261Co 2:10-13Jhn 14:17Jhn 15:261Jn 2:271Jn 2:20Act 2:17-18Jhn 12:49 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you. 1Jn 4:13-142Co 3:14-18Jhn 15:26Rev 19:101Co 12:31Pe 1:10-121Co 2:8-101Jn 3:23 Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you. Jhn 17:10Mat 11:27Jhn 3:35Luk 10:22Col 1:19Mat 28:18Jhn 10:29-30Jhn 13:3
In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me. 2” Jhn 7:33Act 1:3Act 10:40-41Jhn 14:18-24Jhn 16:22Jhn 16:28Heb 12:2Jhn 13:3
Grief Will Turn to Joy
Then some of His disciples asked one another, “Why is He telling us, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?” Jhn 16:16Jhn 16:5Mrk 9:32Jhn 14:5Jhn 16:19Jhn 12:16Luk 18:34Mrk 9:10 They kept asking, “Why is He saying, ‘a little while’? We do not understand what He is saying.” Luk 24:25Heb 5:12Mat 16:9-11
Aware that they wanted to question Him, Jesus said to them, “Are you asking one another why I said, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’? Jhn 14:19Jhn 16:16Jhn 16:30Heb 4:13Jhn 13:33Jhn 2:24-25Jhn 7:33Jhn 21:17 Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. Jas 1:2Mat 5:4Psa 126:5-6Rev 7:14-17Mrk 16:101Pe 1:6-82Co 6:10Jer 31:25 A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world. Isa 13:8Psa 113:91Th 5:3Jer 30:6-7Hos 13:13-14Isa 26:16-18Mic 4:10Rev 12:2-5 So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. 1Pe 1:8Act 13:52Jhn 16:62Th 2:161Pe 4:13-14Act 16:25Isa 25:9Psa 146:2
Ask in My Name
(Matthew 18:19–20)
In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Truly, truly, I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. Jhn 15:7Jhn 14:13-14Mat 21:221Jn 5:14-16Isa 65:24Mat 7:7Jhn 16:26Jhn 14:20 Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete. Mat 7:7-8Jas 4:2-3Jhn 15:112Th 2:16-17Jhn 16:231Jn 1:3-42Jn 1:12Eph 1:16-17
I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father. Jhn 16:12Jhn 10:6Jhn 16:28-29Mat 13:34-35Mrk 4:13Mat 13:10-11Psa 49:4Psa 78:2 In that day you will ask in My name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. Rom 8:34Jhn 17:19Jhn 17:24Jhn 17:9Jhn 14:16Jhn 16:23 For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God. 3 Jhn 14:21Jhn 14:23Jhn 17:23Jhn 8:421Jn 4:191Co 16:221Pe 1:82Co 5:14 I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.” Jhn 13:1Jhn 13:3Jhn 8:14Jhn 14:28Jhn 16:5Jhn 17:5Act 1:9-11Jhn 16:16
His disciples said, “See, now You are speaking plainly and without figures of speech. Jhn 16:25 Now we understand that You know all things and that You have no need for anyone to question You. Because of this, we believe that You came from God.” Jhn 21:17Jhn 17:8Heb 4:13Jhn 16:17Jhn 16:27-28Jhn 5:20
“Do you finally believe?” Jesus replied. Luk 9:44-45Jhn 13:38 “Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. Zec 13:7Mat 26:31Jhn 8:29Mrk 14:27Jhn 8:16Mat 26:56Isa 50:6-9Mrk 14:50 I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!” Jhn 14:271Jn 5:42Th 3:161Jn 4:4Php 4:7Jhn 14:11Pe 5:92Ti 3:12