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

concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer;

and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.

He will glorify me, because he will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

Now they understand that everything you have given me comes from you,

(For they did not yet understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead.)

Don’t you say, ‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest!

They said to the woman, “No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one really is the Savior of the world.”

Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted.

Then the people who were with Mary in the house consoling her saw her get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my 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.

Jesus could see that they wanted to ask him about these things, so he said to them, “Are you asking each other about this – that I said, ‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me’?

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

He confessed – he did not deny but confessed – “I am not the Christ!”

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will devour me.”

So then the Jewish leaders responded, “What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?”

For in this instance the saying is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’