John 16:4-5
16:4 But I have told you these things
so that when their time
comes, you will remember that I told you about them.
“I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.
16:5 But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me, ‘Where are you going?’
John 16:16-17
16:16 In a little while you
will see me no longer; again after a little while, you
will see me.”
16:17 Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is the meaning of what he is saying, ‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me,’ and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?”
John 17:11-13
17:11 I
am no longer in the world, but
they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe
in your name
that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.
17:12 When I was with them I kept them safe
and watched over them
in your name
that you have given me. Not one
of them was lost except the one destined for destruction,
so that the scripture could be fulfilled.
17:13 But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience
my joy completed
in themselves.