Jesus two major sermons and major teachings bible study

 

This is a bible study consisting of the Sermon on the Mount and also the teaching in John to His disciples just before Jesus went to the cross to die for our sins. I am led to highlight them in the hopes that these words of Jesus help build you up, grow you in your faith, even help some people who would want to know Jesus for the first time, accepting Him as their personal Lord and Savior.

In chapters 5, 6, and 7 of Matthew, Jesus presents the very powerful Sermon on the Mount to his disciples and the crowd following, climbing a mountain in order to present the sermon. In the sermon he gives much powerful advice to everyone, even today over what is blessed, what to do, to trust in God and to follow Jesus, doing the will of the Father for that is key to getting in to Heaven. I am going to present these chapters all together without any comment in between them so as to maximize the impact of this powerful sermon:

(Matthew 5:1)  Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.

 

(Matthew 5:2)  And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:

 

(Matthew 5:3)  "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

 

(Matthew 5:4)  "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

 

(Matthew 5:5)  "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

 

(Matthew 5:6)  "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

 

(Matthew 5:7)  "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

 

(Matthew 5:8)  "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

 

(Matthew 5:9)  "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

 

(Matthew 5:10)  "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

 

(Matthew 5:11)  "Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.

 

(Matthew 5:12)  Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

 

(Matthew 5:13)  "You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.

 

(Matthew 5:14)  "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.

 

(Matthew 5:15)  Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.

 

(Matthew 5:16)  In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

 

(Matthew 5:17)  "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

 

(Matthew 5:18)  For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

 

(Matthew 5:19)  Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

 

(Matthew 5:20)  For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

 

(Matthew 5:21)  "You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.'

 

(Matthew 5:22)  But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, 'You fool!' will be liable to the hell of fire.

 

(Matthew 5:23)  So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,

 

(Matthew 5:24)  leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

 

(Matthew 5:25)  Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.

 

(Matthew 5:26)  Truly, I say to you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny.

 

(Matthew 5:27)  "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.'

 

(Matthew 5:28)  But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

 

(Matthew 5:29)  If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

 

(Matthew 5:30)  And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.

 

(Matthew 5:31)  "It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.'

 

(Matthew 5:32)  But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

 

(Matthew 5:33)  "Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.'

 

(Matthew 5:34)  But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God,

 

(Matthew 5:35)  or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

 

(Matthew 5:36)  And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.

 

(Matthew 5:37)  Let what you say be simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything more than this comes from evil.

 

(Matthew 5:38)  "You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'

 

(Matthew 5:39)  But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

 

(Matthew 5:40)  And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well.

 

(Matthew 5:41)  And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.

 

(Matthew 5:42)  Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

 

(Matthew 5:43)  "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'

 

(Matthew 5:44)  But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

 

(Matthew 5:45)  so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

 

(Matthew 5:46)  For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

 

(Matthew 5:47)  And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?

 

(Matthew 5:48)  You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

 

(Matthew 6:1)  "Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

 

(Matthew 6:2)  "Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

 

(Matthew 6:3)  But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

 

(Matthew 6:4)  so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

 

(Matthew 6:5)  "And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

 

(Matthew 6:6)  But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

 

(Matthew 6:7)  "And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

 

(Matthew 6:8)  Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

 

(Matthew 6:9)  Pray then like this: "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

 

(Matthew 6:10)  Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

 

(Matthew 6:11)  Give us this day our daily bread,

 

(Matthew 6:12)  and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

 

(Matthew 6:13)  And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

 

(Matthew 6:14)  For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,

 

(Matthew 6:15)  but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

 

(Matthew 6:16)  "And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

 

(Matthew 6:17)  But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,

 

(Matthew 6:18)  that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

 

(Matthew 6:19)  "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,

 

(Matthew 6:20)  but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.

 

(Matthew 6:21)  For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

 

(Matthew 6:22)  "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,

 

(Matthew 6:23)  but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

 

(Matthew 6:24)  "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

 

(Matthew 6:25)  "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

 

(Matthew 6:26)  Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

 

(Matthew 6:27)  And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?

 

(Matthew 6:28)  And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,

 

(Matthew 6:29)  yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

 

(Matthew 6:30)  But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

 

(Matthew 6:31)  Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'

 

(Matthew 6:32)  For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

 

(Matthew 6:33)  But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

 

(Matthew 6:34)  "Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

 

(Matthew 7:1)  "Judge not, that you be not judged.

 

(Matthew 7:2)  For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

 

(Matthew 7:3)  Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

 

(Matthew 7:4)  Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye?

 

(Matthew 7:5)  You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

 

(Matthew 7:6)  "Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.

 

(Matthew 7:7)  "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

 

(Matthew 7:8)  For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

 

(Matthew 7:9)  Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

 

(Matthew 7:10)  Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?

 

(Matthew 7:11)  If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

 

(Matthew 7:12)  "So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

 

(Matthew 7:13)  "Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.

 

(Matthew 7:14)  For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

 

(Matthew 7:15)  "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

 

(Matthew 7:16)  You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

 

(Matthew 7:17)  So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.

 

(Matthew 7:18)  A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.

 

(Matthew 7:19)  Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

 

(Matthew 7:20)  Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.

 

(Matthew 7:21)  "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

 

(Matthew 7:22)  On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?'

 

(Matthew 7:23)  And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'

 

(Matthew 7:24)  "Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

 

(Matthew 7:25)  And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.

 

(Matthew 7:26)  And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

 

(Matthew 7:27)  And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it."

 

(Matthew 7:28)  And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching,

 

(Matthew 7:29)  for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.

 

Here are the teaching series in the gospel of John, and this includes chapters 13, even though it has the Lord’s supper and other things related to the passion, some of the teachings of the sermon also start in the chapter, such as the command to love one another  and also chapter 17, which is where Jesus out of His love makes this powerful prayer to the Heavenly Father for His apostles.

(John 13:1)  Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

 

(John 13:2)  During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,

 

(John 13:3)  Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

 

(John 13:4)  rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist.

 

(John 13:5)  Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

 

(John 13:6)  He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, do you wash my feet?"

 

(John 13:7)  Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand."

 

(John 13:8)  Peter said to him, "You shall never wash my feet." Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no share with me."

 

(John 13:9)  Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!"

 

(John 13:10)  Jesus said to him, "The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you."

 

(John 13:11)  For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, "Not all of you are clean."

 

(John 13:12)  When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, "Do you understand what I have done to you?

 

(John 13:13)  You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am.

 

(John 13:14)  If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

 

(John 13:15)  For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.

 

(John 13:16)  Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

 

(John 13:17)  If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

 

(John 13:18)  I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, 'He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.'

 

(John 13:19)  I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he.

 

(John 13:20)  Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me."

 

(John 13:21)  After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, "Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me."

 

(John 13:22)  The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke.

 

(John 13:23)  One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table close to Jesus,

 

(John 13:24)  so Simon Peter motioned to him to ask Jesus of whom he was speaking.

 

(John 13:25)  So that disciple, leaning back against Jesus, said to him, "Lord, who is it?"

 

(John 13:26)  Jesus answered, "It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it." So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.

 

(John 13:27)  Then after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, "What you are going to do, do quickly."

 

(John 13:28)  Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him.

 

(John 13:29)  Some thought that, because Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him, "Buy what we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.

 

(John 13:30)  So, after receiving the morsel of bread, he immediately went out. And it was night.

 

(John 13:31)  When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.

 

(John 13:32)  If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once.

 

(John 13:33)  Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, 'Where I am going you cannot come.'

 

(John 13:34)  A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

 

(John 13:35)  By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

 

(John 13:36)  Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered him, "Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward."

 

(John 13:37)  Peter said to him, "Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."

 

(John 13:38)  Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.

 

(John 14:1)  "Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

 

(John 14:2)  In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?

 

(John 14:3)  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

 

(John 14:4)  And you know the way to where I am going."

 

(John 14:5)  Thomas said to him, "Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?"

 

(John 14:6)  Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

 

(John 14:7)  If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him."

 

(John 14:8)  Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us."

 

(John 14:9)  Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?

 

(John 14:10)  Do 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 authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.

 

(John 14:11)  Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.

 

(John 14:12)  "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.

 

(John 14:13)  Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

 

(John 14:14)  If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

 

(John 14:15)  "If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

 

(John 14:16)  And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,

 

(John 14:17)  even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

 

(John 14:18)  "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

 

(John 14:19)  Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.

 

(John 14:20)  In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

 

(John 14:21)  Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him."

 

(John 14:22)  Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?"

 

(John 14:23)  Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

 

(John 14:24)  Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

 

(John 14:25)  "These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you.

 

(John 14:26)  But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

 

(John 14:27)  Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

 

(John 14:28)  You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

 

(John 14:29)  And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe.

 

(John 14:30)  I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me,

 

(John 14:31)  but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

 

(John 15:1)  "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

 

(John 15:2)  Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

 

(John 15:3)  Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

 

(John 15:4)  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.

 

(John 15:5)  I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

 

(John 15:6)  If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.

 

(John 15:7)  If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

 

(John 15:8)  By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

 

(John 15:9)  As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.

 

(John 15:10)  If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

 

(John 15:11)  These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

 

(John 15:12)  "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

 

(John 15:13)  Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

 

(John 15:14)  You are my friends if you do what I command you.

 

(John 15:15)  No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

 

(John 15:16)  You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

 

(John 15:17)  These things I command you, so that you will love one another.

 

(John 15:18)  "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

 

(John 15:19)  If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

 

(John 15:20)  Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

 

(John 15:21)  But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.

 

(John 15:22)  If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

 

(John 15:23)  Whoever hates me hates my Father also.

 

(John 15:24)  If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

 

(John 15:25)  But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: 'They hated me without a cause.'

 

(John 15:26)  "But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.

 

(John 15:27)  And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.

 

(John 16:1)  "I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away.

 

(John 16:2)  They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

 

(John 16:3)  And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

 

(John 16:4)  But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. "I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

 

(John 16:5)  But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'

 

(John 16:6)  But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

 

(John 16:7)  Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

 

(John 16:8)  And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:

 

(John 16:9)  concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;

 

(John 16:10)  concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer;

 

(John 16:11)  concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

 

(John 16:12)  "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

 

(John 16:13)  When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

 

(John 16:14)  He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

 

(John 16:15)  All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

 

(John 16:16)  "A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me."

 

(John 16:17)  So some of his disciples said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me'; and, 'because I am going to the Father'?"

 

(John 16:18)  So they were saying, "What does he mean by 'a little while'? We do not know what he is talking about."

 

(John 16:19)  Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, "Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, 'A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me'?

 

(John 16:20)  Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.

 

(John 16:21)  When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

 

(John 16:22)  So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

 

(John 16:23)  In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

 

(John 16:24)  Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

 

(John 16:25)  "I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.

 

(John 16:26)  In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf;

 

(John 16:27)  for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

 

(John 16:28)  I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father."

 

(John 16:29)  His disciples said, "Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not using figurative speech!

 

(John 16:30)  Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God."

 

(John 16:31)  Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe?

 

(John 16:32)  Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

 

(John 16:33)  I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."

 

(John 17:1)  When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,

 

(John 17:2)  since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

 

(John 17:3)  And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

 

(John 17:4)  I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.

 

(John 17:5)  And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

 

(John 17:6)  "I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

 

(John 17:7)  Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.

 

(John 17:8)  For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.

 

(John 17:9)  I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

 

(John 17:10)  All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.

 

(John 17:11)  And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.

 

(John 17:12)  While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

 

(John 17:13)  But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

 

(John 17:14)  I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

 

(John 17:15)  I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.

 

(John 17:16)  They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

 

(John 17:17)  Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

 

(John 17:18)  As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.

 

(John 17:19)  And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

 

(John 17:20)  "I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,

 

(John 17:21)  that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

 

(John 17:22)  The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,

 

(John 17:23)  I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

 

(John 17:24)  Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

 

(John 17:25)  O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.

 

(John 17:26)  I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them."

 

After this, in the next chapter Jesus would be arrested and then, after hearings and would be crucified. Here is the account of the Passion as told in Matthew and Mark

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jay-dougherty/passion-of-christ-comparative-bible-study-gospels-of-matthew-and-mark/10200658388195697

Also the Passion from Luke and John (including the above teaching in John, as it did occur and fit in the time of the Passion of Christ

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jay-dougherty/passion-of-christ-comparative-bible-study-gospels-of-luke-and-john/10200659962555055

and on the third day Jesus arose from the dead as He promised to do:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jay-dougherty/jesus-is-risen-bible-study/10200661949284722

Jesus cares about you, for He left all these wonderful teachings for us to study and then He did die, taking our sins with Him to the cross, and dying for them that we now can find forgiveness for those sins we have committed- all have sinned according to Romans and fallen short of the glory of God- and mercy and eternal life with God. Jesus did this so He- and His Father could have a love relationship as the love you so much that Jesus died for you with this purpose in mind. I am now including a prayer for you now which will invite Jesus in your heart, or enable you to repent and come back to Him if you have drifted away. Please pray this prayer with me:

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

God bless you and yours