John 16:5-7

New International Reader's Version

⁵ But now I am going to the one who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ ⁶ Instead, you are filled with sadness because I have said these things. ⁷ But what I’m about to tell you is true. It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Friend will not come to help you. But if I go, I will send him to you.