John 16:28
I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”
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- John 13:3 : 3 Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,
- John 8:14 : 14 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.
- John 13:1 : 1 Washing the Disciples’ Feet Just before the Passover Feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.
- John 16:5 : 5 But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me,‘Where are you going?’
- John 16:16 : 16 In a little while you will see me no longer; again after a little while, you will see me.”
- John 17:5 : 5 And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.
- John 17:11 : 11 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.
- John 17:13 : 13 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.
- Acts 1:9-9 : 9 After he had said this, while they were watching, he was lifted up and a cloud hid him from their sight. 10 As they were still staring into the sky while he was going, suddenly two men in white clothing stood near them 11 and said,“Men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking up into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in the same way you saw him go into heaven.”
- Luke 9:51 : 51 Rejection in Samaria Now when the days drew near for him to be taken up, Jesus set out resolutely to go to Jerusalem.
- Luke 24:51 : 51 Now during the blessing he departed and was taken up into heaven.
- John 14:28 : 28 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.
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27For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
- John 14:28-314 verses82%
28You 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.
29I have told you now before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe.
30I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,
31but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.
- John 16:15-173 verses79%
15Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.
16In a little while you will see me no longer; again after a little while, you will see me.”
17Then some of his disciples said to one another,“What is the meaning of what he is saying,‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me,’ and,‘because I am going to the Father’?”
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42Jesus replied,“If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.
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23Jesus replied,“You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.
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27“Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say?‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.
28Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven,“I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
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8because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.
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18“I will not abandon you as orphans, I will come to you.
19In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.
20You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.
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38For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
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28Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out,“You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,
29but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me.”
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28Then Jesus said,“When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.
29And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”
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14Jesus 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.
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32Look, a time is coming– and has come– when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.
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10concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer;
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33Children, 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.
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18Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.
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10Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.
11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.
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13But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.
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3And 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.
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5But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me,‘Where are you going?’
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21Where Jesus Came From and Where He is Going Then Jesus said to them again,“I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.”
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17This is why the Father loves me– because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.
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6Jesus replied,“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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25“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.
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30The Father and I are one.”
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29His disciples said,“Look, now you are speaking plainly and not in obscure figures of speech!
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26I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.”
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26When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father– the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father– he will testify about me,
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3Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,
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23I in them and you in me– that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.
24“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
25Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.
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33Then Jesus said,“I will be with you for only a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.
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5And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.
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16But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.
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38I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”
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11I 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.
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49For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.
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1Jesus Prays for the Father to Glorify Him When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said,“Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you–