1. I HAVE told you all these things, so that you should not be offended (taken unawares and falter, or be caused to stumble and fall away). [I told you to keep you from being scandalized and repelled.]
2. They will put you out of (expel you from) the synagogues; but an hour is coming when whoever kills you will think and claim that he has offered service to God.
3. And they will do this because they have not known the Father or Me.
4. But I have told you these things now, so that when they occur you will remember that I told you of them. I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.
5. But now I am going to Him Who sent Me, yet none of you asks Me, Where are You going?
6. But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts [taken complete possession of them].
7. However, I am telling you nothing but the truth when I say it is profitable (good, expedient, advantageous) for you that I go away. Because if I do not go away, the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, Strengthener, Standby) will not come to you [into close fellowship with you]; but if I go away, I will send Him to you [to be in close fellowship with you].
8. And when He comes, He will convict and convince the world and bring demonstration to it about sin and about righteousness (uprightness of heart and right standing with God) and about judgment:
9. About sin, because they do not believe in Me [trust in, rely on, and adhere to Me];
10. About righteousness (uprightness of heart and right standing with God), because I go to My Father, and you will see Me no longer;