John 16:4-6
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
4 I have told you this so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you.(A)
Jesus’ Departure; Coming of the Advocate.[a] “I did not tell you this from the beginning, because I was with you. 5 But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you asks me,[b] ‘Where are you going?’(B) 6 But because I told you this, grief has filled your hearts.
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- 16:4b–33 A duplicate of Jn 14:1–31 on departure and return.
- 16:5 Not one of you asks me: the difficulty of reconciling this with Simon Peter’s question in Jn 13:36 and Thomas’ words in Jn 14:5 strengthens the supposition that the last discourse has been made up of several collections of Johannine material.
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