1. “I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.
2. They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
3. They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
4. But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
5. But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
6. But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.
7. Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counsellor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
8. When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgement;
9. about sin, because they don’t believe in me;