For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!”

Then Jesus said, “I will be with you for only a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.

Then I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever –

I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

Children, I am still with you for a little while. You will look for me, and just as I said to the Jewish religious leaders, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ now I tell you the same.

Jesus replied, “Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

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.

Eight days later the disciples were again together in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”