John Chapter 16

Question 1

John 16:1

Answer 1

“All this I have told you so that you will not go astray.

Question 2

John 16:2

Answer 2

They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

Question 3

John 16:3

Answer 3

They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.

Question 4

John 16:4

Answer 4

I have told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember that I warned you. I did not tell you this at first because I was with you.

Question 5

John 16:5

Answer 5

“Now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

Question 6

John 16:6

Answer 6

Because I have said these things, you are filled with grief.

Question 7

John 16:7

Answer 7

But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.

Question 8

John 16:8

Answer 8

When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment:

Question 9

John 16:9

Answer 9

in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me;

Question 10

John 16:10

Answer 10

in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer;

Question 11

John 16:11

Answer 11

and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.

Question 12

John 16:12

Answer 12

“I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.

Question 13

John 16:13

Answer 13

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.

Question 14

John 16:14

Answer 14

He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you.

Question 15

John 16:15

Answer 15

All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you.

Question 16

John 16:16

Answer 16

“In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.”

Question 17

John 16:17

Answer 17

Some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”

Question 18

John 16:18

Answer 18

They kept asking, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We don’t understand what he is saying.”

Question 19

John 16:19

Answer 19

Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me’?

Question 20

John 16:20

Answer 20

I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.

Question 21

John 16:21

Answer 21

A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.

Question 22

John 16:22

Answer 22

So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.

Question 23

John 16:23

Answer 23

In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.

Question 24

John 16:24

Answer 24

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.

Question 25

John 16:25

Answer 25

“Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father.

Question 26

John 16:26

Answer 26

In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

Question 27

John 16:27

Answer 27

No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

Question 28

John 16:28

Answer 28

I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

Question 29

John 16:29

Answer 29

Then Jesus’ disciples said, “Now you are speaking clearly and without figures of speech.

Question 30

John 16:30

Answer 30

Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from God.”

Question 31

John 16:31

Answer 31

“You believe at last!” Jesus answered.

Question 32

John 16:32

Answer 32

“But a time is coming, and has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me.

Question 33

John 16:33

Answer 33

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”