John 16:7 Cross References - Moffatt

⁷ Yet — I am telling you the truth — my going is for your good. If I do not depart, the Helper will not come to you; whereas if I go, I will send him to you.

²⁵ I tell you for a fact, In Israel there were many widows during the days of Elijah, when the sky was closed for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land:

²⁷ I tell you plainly, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the Reign of God."

⁴⁹ And I will send down on you what my Father has promised; wait in the city till you are endued with power from on high."

³⁹ (he meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive: — as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus had not been glorified yet).

⁴⁵ It is because I tell the truth, that you do not believe me. ⁴⁶ Which of you can convict me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

⁵⁰ you do not understand it is in your own interests that one man should die for the People, instead of the whole nation being destroyed." ⁵¹ (He did not say this simply of his own accord; he was high priest that year, and his words were a prophecy that Jesus was to die for the nation, ⁵² and not merely for the nation but to gather into one the scattered children of God.)

³ And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.

¹⁶ and I will ask the Father to give you another Helper to be with you for ever, ¹⁷ even the Spirit of truth: the world cannot receive him, because it neither sees nor knows him, but you know him, because he remains with you and will be within you.

²⁶ but the Helper, the holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and recall to you everything I have said.

²⁸ You heard me tell you I was going away and coming back to you; if you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father — for the Father is greater than I am.

²⁶ When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth which issues from the Father, he will bear witness to me;

⁴ Also, as he ate with them, he charged them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait for what the Father promised — "for what you have heard me speak of," said he; ⁵ "for John baptized with water, but not many days after this you shall be baptized with the holy Spirit."

³³ Uplifted then by God's right hand, and receiving from the Father the long-promised holy Spirit, he has poured on us what you now see and hear.)

³⁴ Then Peter opened his lips and said, "I see quite plainly that God has no favourites,

²⁸ We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything.

¹⁷ The slight trouble of the passing hour results in a solid glory past all comparison,

⁸ Thus it is said, When he ascended on high he led a host captive and granted gifts to men. ⁹ What does he ascended mean, except that he first descended to the nether regions of the earth? ¹⁰ He who descended is he who ascended above all the heavens to fill the universe; ¹¹ he granted some men to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to shepherd and teach, ¹² for the equipment of the saints, for the business of the ministry, for the upbuilding of the Body of Christ, ¹³ till we should all attain the unity of the faith and knowledge of God's Son, reaching maturity, reaching the full measure of development which belongs to the fulness of Christ —