John 16:5

Jesus' Departure And The Coming Of The Holy Spirit

⁴ I have told you these things [now], so that when their time comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not say these things to you at the beginning, because I was with you. ⁵ “But now I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’ ⁶ But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts [and taken complete possession of them].

Here I Am

I Go Away

Where are You Going

One Who Sent Me

John

No

John 13:36

Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, where are You going?” Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you cannot follow Me now; but you will be able to follow later.”

John 7:33

Therefore Jesus said, “For a little while longer I am [still] with you, and then I go to Him who sent Me.

John 16:10

about righteousness [personal integrity and godly character], because I am going to My Father and you will no longer see Me;

John 16:28

I came from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

John 6:62

What then [will you think] if you see the Son of Man ascending to [the realm] where He was before?

John 13:3

that Jesus, knowing that the Father had put everything into His hands, and that He had come from God and was [now] returning to God,

John 14:4-6

And [to the place] where I am going, you know the way.”

John 14:28

You heard Me tell you, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you [really] loved Me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going [back] to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

John 16:16

“A little while, and you will no longer see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me.”

John 17:4

I have glorified You [down here] on the earth by completing the work that You gave Me to do.

John 17:13

But now I am coming to You; and I say these things [while I am still] in the world so that they may experience My joy made full and complete and perfect within them [filling their hearts with My delight].

Ephesians 4:7-11

Yet grace [God’s undeserved favor] was given to each one of us [not indiscriminately, but in different ways] in proportion to the measure of Christ’s [rich and abundant] gift.

Hebrews 1:3

The Son is the radiance and only expression of the glory of [our awesome] God [reflecting God’s Shekinah glory, the Light-being, the brilliant light of the divine], and the exact representation and perfect imprint of His [Father’s] essence, and upholding and maintaining and propelling all things [the entire physical and spiritual universe] by His powerful word [carrying the universe along to its predetermined goal]. When He [Himself and no other] had [by offering Himself on the cross as a sacrifice for sin] accomplished purification from sins and established our freedom from guilt, He sat down [revealing His completed work] at the right hand of the Majesty on high [revealing His Divine authority],

Hebrews 12:2

[looking away from all that will distract us and] focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is the Author and Perfecter of faith [the first incentive for our belief and the One who brings our faith to maturity], who for the joy [of accomplishing the goal] set before Him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God [revealing His deity, His authority, and the completion of His work].