“I will not abandon you as orphans, I will come to you.

Until I come, give attention to the public reading of scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.

I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have so that no one can take away your crown.

The one who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon!” Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!

This is the third time I am coming to visit you. By the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter will be established.

(Look! I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy expressed in this book.)

(Look! I am coming soon, and my reward is with me to pay each one according to what he has done!

And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with these until I come back.’

And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be too.

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.

Jesus replied, “If I want him to live until I come back, what concern is that of yours? You follow me!”

Therefore, repent! If not, I will come against you quickly and make war against those people with the sword of my mouth.

(Look! I will come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays alert and does not lose his clothes so that he will not have to walk around naked and his shameful condition be seen.)

So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, ‘For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?’

The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me.”

You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

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.

Therefore, remember from what high state you have fallen and repent! Do the deeds you did at the first; if not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place – that is, if you do not repent.

Jesus answered, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going.

So the saying circulated among the brothers and sisters that this disciple was not going to die. But Jesus did not say to him that he was not going to die, but rather, “If I want him to live until I come back, what concern is that of yours?”