I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath 7 filled your heart. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you but if I depart, I will send 8 him unto you. And when he is come, he will convince the world of sin, and of righteousness, 9 and of judgment: of sin, because they believe 10 not on me; of righteousness, because I go to 11 my Father, and ye see me no more ;* of judg ment, because the prince of this world is judg12 ed. I have yet many things to say unto you, 13 but ye cannot bear them now. But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak; and he will shew you things to come. 14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of 15 mine, and shall shew it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore I said that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it 16 unto you. A little while, and A little while, and ye shall not see me and again, a little while, and ye shall see 17 me, because I go to the Father. Then some of his disciples said among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me and again, a little while, and ye shall see me : and, Because I go : By the miraculous gifts of the Spirit, the gospel was proved to be the cause of righteousness; and the power of Satan destroyed. The apostles were expecting Christ would exert great temporal power; and were not prepared for the idea of persecution and sufferings. 18 to the Father? They said therefore, What is this that he saith, "A little while?" We can19 not tell what he saith. Now Jesus knew they were desirous to ask him, and he said unto them, Do ye inquire among yourselves of that I said, "A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see 20 me?" Verily, verily I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your 21 sorrow shall be turned into joy.* A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the 22 world. And now ye have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and 23 your joy no man taketh from you. In that day ye will ask me nothing: Verily, verily I say unto you, whatever ye shall ask the Father 24 in my name, he will give it you.† Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name : ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be perfect. 25 These things I have spoken unto you in parables but the tinie cometh when I will no more speak unto you in parables, but I will 26 shew you plainly of the Father. At that day ye will ask in my name and I do not say that *Their grief was indeed excessive, when he was taken and crucified; but his resurrection gave new hope and joy, which never forsook them. We have no intimation that it is proper to pray to Christ; but we are directed to pray to God in his name, and with faith in his declarations. 27 I will pray the Father for you:* For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from 28 God. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, 29 and go to the Father. His disciples said unto him, Lo, now thou speakest plainly, and dost 30 not speak in parables. Now we are sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee :† by this we believe 31 that thou didst come from God. Jesus answer32 ed them, Do ye now believe? Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come,† that ye shall be scattered every man to his own, and shall leave me alone; yet I am not alone, because 33 the Father is with me. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye will have trouble: but take courage, I have overcome the world. 1 CHAP. XVII. JESUS spake these words, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may *The Father is in himself propitious, and ready to hear the sincere, devout supplicant. †They were satisfied Christ was possessed of a divine spirit, by which he knew the views and thoughts of others. Is very near, or will soon come. g This and the two preceding chapters were addressed to the disciples alone, to comfort them in the trials which awaited them. 2 glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as 3 many as thou hast given him. And this is eternal life, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.* 4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine ownself, with the glory which I had with 6 thee before the world was. I have manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: they were thine and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy 7 word. They now know that all things, what8 soever thou hast given me, are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst 9 send me. 1 I pray for them I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me ; 10 for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 And I am to be no more in the world; but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep in thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be 12 one, as we are. Whilst I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those * And Jesus, whom thou hast sent, to be the Christ, the Messiah. Campbell renders the last clause, and Jesus, the Messiah, thy apostle. That is, the same doctrines and truths thou didst impart to me, I have made known to them. H L that thou gavest me, I have kept; and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that 13 the scripture might be fulfilled.* And now I come to thee, and these things I speak in the world,that they may have my joy fulfilled inthem. 14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, 15 even as I am not ofthe world. Ipray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that 16 thou wouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the 17 world. Sanctify them by thy truth: thy word 18 is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified through the truth. 20 Nor do I pray for these only, but for them also who shall believe on me through their 21 word; that they all may be one as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that 22 thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them; that they 23 may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast 24 loved me. Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me for thou lovedst me before 25 the foundation of the world. O righteous *As the scriptures foretold, says Dr. Campbell. |