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Gospel Reading - Peace in Christ

²⁵“I have spoken of these matters very guardedly, but the time will come when this will not be necessary and I will tell you plainly all about the Father. ²⁶Then you will present your petitions over my signature!^a And I won’t need to ask the Father to grant you these requests, ²⁷for the Father himself loves you dearly because you love me and believe that I came from the Father. ²⁸Yes, I came from the Father into the world and will leave the world and return to the Father.”

²⁹“At last you are speaking plainly,” his disciples said, “and not in riddles. ³⁰Now we understand that you know everything and don’t need anyone to tell you anything.^b From this we believe that you came from God.”

³¹“Do you finally believe this?” Jesus asked. ³²“But the time is coming — in fact, it is here — when you will be scattered, each one returning to his own home, leaving me alone. Yet I will not be alone, for the Father is with me. ³³I have told you all this so that you will have peace of heart and mind. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows; but cheer up, for I have overcome the world.”