I tell you very truly, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you for with you now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus. All this I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you. Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid. I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future be thankful in all circumstances, When asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town. And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity. In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous. And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers. You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell? One day in a place where Jesus had just finished praying, one of His disciples requested, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” The kingdom of God will not come with observable signs. Nor will people say, ‘Look, here it is,’ or ‘There It is.’ For you see, the kingdom of God is in your midst.” So Jesus told them, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread. Then He said to the disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.
John 16:7
Luke 17:20-22
Matthew 23:23-36
Luke 11:1-3
Jeremiah 29:11
John 16:22
1 Thessalonians 5:18
John 14:25-27
