“I have spoken these things while staying with you.

“I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.

You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you.

Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you.

I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

“I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage – I have conquered the world.”

The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

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.

Jesus replied, “I have spoken publicly to the world. I always taught in the synagogues and in the temple courts, where all the Jewish people assemble together. I have said nothing in secret.