But I have told you these things so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
然而,我將真情告訴你們,我去是與你們有益的;我若不去,保惠師就不到你們這裏來;我若去,就差他來。
16:8
ወመጺኦውእቱይዛለፎለዓለምበእንተኀጢአትወበእንተጽድቅወበእንተኵነኔ።
When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;
他既來了,就要叫世人為罪、為義、為審判,自己責備自己。
16:9
በእንተኀጢአትሰእስመኢአምኑብየ።
about sin, because they don’t believe in me;
為罪,是因他們不信我;
16:10
ወበእንተጽድቅኒእስመአነአሐውርኀበአብወኢትሬእዩኒእንከ።
about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more;
為義,是因我往父那裏去,你們就不再見我;
16:11
ወበእንተሰኵነኔእስመይትኴነንመልአኩለዝንቱዓለም።
about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.
為審判,是因這世界的王受了審判。
16:12
ወብየብዙኅነገርዘእነግረክሙወባሕቱኢትክሉጸዊሮቶይእዜ።
“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.
However, when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?”
Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’?
A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
“I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
「這些事,我是用比喻對你們說的;時候將到,我不再用比喻對你們說,乃要將父明明地告訴你們。
16:26
ወይእተአሚረትስእሉበስምየወኢይብለክሙከመአነዘእስእሎለአብበእንቲኣክሙ።
In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you that I will pray to the Father for you,
Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.