John 16:3

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John 16:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 “I have told you these things so that you will not fall away.

2 They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.

4 But I have told you these things so that when their hour 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.

5 Now, however, I am going to Him who sent Me; yet none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’

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