John 16


John 16 is the sixteenth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records Jesus' continued farewell discourse to His disciples, set on the last night before His crucifixion. Jesus speaks about the work of the Holy Spirit, the joy of the believers and His victory over the world. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that John composed this Gospel.

Text

The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 33 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
The setting for the discourse in this chapter and the following chapter appears to be in Jerusalem. The precise location is not specified, but states that afterwards, "Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley".

Analysis

The evangelist's purpose in this section of his gospel is to support the Church for whom he is writing, to ensure that they do not fall away . Translations vary widely in the way they treat these words:
Jesus foretells the exclusion from the Jewish synagogues which the evangelist has already alluded to in and.

Verse 13

Verse 24