7. But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you.
8. And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong concerning sin and righteousness and judgment –
9. concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;
10. concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer;
11. and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.
12. “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
13. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you what is to come.
14. He will glorify me, because he will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.
15. Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.
16. In a little while you will see me no longer; again after a little while, you will see me.”
17. Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is the meaning of what he is saying, ‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me,’ and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?”
18. So they kept on repeating, “What is the meaning of what he says, ‘In a little while’? We do not understand what he is talking about.”
19. Jesus could see that they wanted to ask him about these things, so he said to them, “Are you asking each other about this – that I said, ‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me’?
20. I tell you the solemn truth, you will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice; you will be sad, but your sadness will turn into joy.
21. When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.
22. So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
23. At that time you will ask me nothing. I tell you the solemn truth, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.