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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. But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you asks me,[b] ‘Where are you going?’(B) But because I told you this, grief has filled your hearts.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:4b–33 A duplicate of Jn 14:1–31 on departure and return.
  2. 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.

I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember(A) that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you,(B) but now I am going to him who sent me.(C) None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’(D) Rather, you are filled with grief(E) because I have said these things.

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