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15:9
mJn 17:23,24,26
15:10
nJn 14:15
15:11
oJn 17:13
15:12
pJn 13:34
15:13
qJn 10:11; Ro 5:7,8
15:14
rLk 12:4
sMt 12:50
15:15
tJn 8:26
15:16
uJn 6:70; 13:18
15:17
vver 12
15:18
w1Jn 3:13
15:19
xver 16
yJn 17:14
15:20
zJn 13:16
a2Ti 3:12
15:21
bMt 10:22
cJn 16:3
15:22
dJn 9:41; Ro 1:20
15:24
eJn 5:36
15:25
fPs 35:19; 69:4
15:26
gJn 14:16
hJn 14:26
iJn 14:17
j1Jn 5:7
15:27
kLk 24:48; 1Jn 1:2
lLk 1:2
16:1
mJn 15:18-27
16:5
nJn 7:33
oJn 13:36; 14:5
16:7
pJn 14:16,26; 15:26
qJn 7:39
16:9
rJn 15:22
16:10
sAc 3:14; 7:52;
1Pe 3:18
16:11
tJn 12:31
16:12
uMk 4:33
16:13
vJn 14:17
wJn 14:26
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J ohn 1 6 : 1 4
9“As the Father has l oved me, m so have I l oved you. Now remain in my love. 10If you
keep my commands, n you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s com
mands and remain in his love. 11I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and
that your joy may be complete. o 12My command is this: Love each other as I have loved
you. p 13Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. q 14You
are my friends r if you do what I command. s 15I no longer call you servants, because a
servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have c alled you friends, for ev
erything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. t 16You did not choose
me, but I c hose you and appointed you u so that you might go and bear fruit — fruit that
will last — and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17This is
my command: Love each other. v
Jesus Warns about the World’s Hatred (216 )
18“If the world hates you, w keep in mind that it hated me first. 19If you belonged to
the world, it w
ould love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I
have chosen you x out of the world. That is why the world hates you. y 20Remember what
I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ a z If they persecuted me, they will
persecute you also. a If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21They will
treat you this way because of my name, b for they do not know the one who sent me. c
22If I had not come and spoken to them, they w
ould not be g
uilty of sin; but now they
have no excuse for their sin. d 23Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. 24If I had not
done among them the works no one else did, e they would not be guilty of sin. As it is,
they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25But this is to fulfill
what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’ b f
26“When the Advocate g comes, whom I will send to you from the Father h — the Spirit
of truth i who goes out from the Father — he will testify about me. j 27And you also must
testify, k for you have been with me from the beginning. l
Jesus Teaches about the Holy Spirit (217 )
“All this m I have told you so that you will not fall away. 2They will put you out of
the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think
they are offering a service to God. 3They will do such things because they have not known
the Father or me. 4I have told you this, so that when t heir time c omes you will remember
that I w
arned you a
bout them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was
with you, 5but now I am going to him who sent me. n None of you asks me, ‘Where are
you going?’ o 6Rather, you are f illed with g
rief because I have said t hese t hings. 7But very
truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate p
will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. q 8When he comes, he will prove
the world to be in the wrong a
bout sin and righteousness and judgment: 9about sin, r
because people do not believe in me; 10about righteousness, s because I am going to the
rince of
Father, where you can see me no longer; 11and about judgment, because the p
this world t now stands condemned.
12“I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. u 13But when he, the
Spirit of truth, v comes, he will guide you into all the truth. w He will not speak on his
own; he will s peak only what he h
ears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14He will
glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make k
nown to you.
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a
20 John 13:16 b 25 Psalms 35:19; 69:4
and defeat death. If he did not go back to the Father, the Holy Spirit
would not come. Jesus’ presence on earth was limited to one place at
a time, but his leaving meant he could be present to the whole world
through the Holy Spirit.
16:8-11 To convict means “to convince,” “to expose the facts,” or “to
refute or c ross-examine.” Three important convicting tasks of the Holy
Spirit are (1) convincing people of their sinfulness to prepare them to seek
repentance and God’s mercy; (2) revealing the standard of God’s righteousness to anyone who believes, because Jesus is no longer physically
present on earth; and (3) demonstrating Jesus’ authority over Satan and
his ultimate judgment and defeat of all evil. This conviction can convince
us that what Jesus promises will come true and give us courage to live
out our faith in a fallen world.
16:9 According to Jesus, not believing in him is a sin.
16:10-11 Jesus’ death on the cross made a personal relationship with
God available to us. When we confess our sin, God declares us righteous
and delivers us from judgment for it.
16:13 The Holy Spirit guides us to see the truth about Jesus Christ—who
he is and what he came to do for us. The Spirit also helps us, through
patient practice, to discern right from wrong. (See Hebrews 5:14 and
1 John 2:20 for more on discernment.)
16:13 Jesus said the Holy Spirit would tell them “what is yet to come”—
the nature of their mission, the opposition they would face, and the final
outcome of their efforts. They didn’t fully understand these promises
until the Holy Spirit came, after Jesus’ death and resurrection. Then the
Holy Spirit revealed truths to them that they wrote down in the books
that now form the New Testament.