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title: "John 16 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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description: "The conclusion of Christ's last discourse to his disciples. John 16 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# John 16

John 16 is chapter 16 of 21 in the Gospel of John. Here are all 33 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The conclusion of Christ's last discourse to his disciples.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## John 16 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. “These things I have spoken to you, so that you would not stumble.
2. They will put you out of the synagogues. But the hour is coming when everyone who puts you to death will consider that he is offering an excellent service to God.
3. And they will do these things to you because they have not known the Father, nor me.
4. But these things I have spoken to you, so that, when the hour for these things will have arrived, you may remember that I told you.
5. But I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. And now I am going to him who sent me. And no one among you has asked me, ‘Where are you going?’
6. But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.
7. But I tell you the truth: it is expedient for you that I am going. For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you. But when I will have gone away, I will send him to you.
8. And when he has arrived, he will argue against the world, about sin and about justice and about judgment:
9. about sin, indeed, because they have not believed in me;
10. about justice, truly, because I am going to the Father, and you will not see me any longer;
11. about judgment, then, because the prince of this world has already been judged.
12. I still have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them now.
13. But when the Spirit of truth has arrived, he will teach the whole truth to you. For he will not be speaking from himself. Instead, whatever he will hear, he will speak. And he will announce to you the things that are to come.
14. He shall glorify me. For he will receive from what is mine, and he will announce it to you.
15. All things whatsoever that the Father has are mine. For this reason, I said that he will receive from what is mine and that he will announce it to you.
16. A little while, and then you will not see me. And again a little while, and you will see me. For I am going to the Father.”
17. Then some of his disciples said to one another: “What is this, that he is saying to us: ‘A little while, and you will not see me,’ and ‘Again a little while, and you will see me,’ and, ‘For I am going to the Father?’”
18. And they said: “What is this, that he is saying, ‘A little while?’ We do not understand what he is saying.”
19. But Jesus realized that they wanted to question him, and so he said to them: “Are you inquiring among yourselves about this, that I said: ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?’
20. Amen, amen, I say to you, that you shall mourn and weep, but the world will rejoice. And you shall be greatly saddened, yet your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
21. A woman, when she is giving birth, has sorrow, because her hour has arrived. But when she has given birth to the child, then she no longer remembers the difficulties, because of the joy: for a man has been born into the world.
22. Therefore, you also, indeed, have sorrow now. But I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice. And no one will take away your joy from you.
23. And, in that day, you will not petition me for anything. Amen, amen, I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything in my name, he will give it to you.
24. Until now, you have not requested anything in my name. Ask, and you shall receive, so that your joy may be full.
25. I have spoken these things to you in proverbs. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs; instead, I will announce to you plainly from the Father.
26. In that day, you shall ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father for you.
27. For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and because you have believed that I went forth from God.
28. I went forth from the Father, and I have come into the world. Next I am leaving the world, and I am going to the Father.”
29. His disciples said to him: “Behold, now you are speaking plainly and not reciting a proverb.
30. Now we know that you know all things, and that you have no need for anyone to question you. By this, we believe that you went forth from God.”
31. Jesus answered them: “Do you believe now?
32. Behold, the hour is coming, and it has now arrived, when you will be scattered, each one on his own, and you will leave me behind, alone. And yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.
33. These things I have spoken to you, so that you may have peace in me. In the world, you will have difficulties. But have confidence: I have overcome the world.”

## John 16 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Hæc locutus sum vobis, ut non scandalizemini.
2. Absque synagogis facient vos: sed venit hora, ut omnis qui interficit vos arbitretur obsequium se præstare Deo.
3. Et hæc facient vobis, quia non noverunt Patrem, neque me.
4. Sed hæc locutus sum vobis, ut cum venerit hora eorum, reminiscamini quia ego dixi vobis.
5. Hæc autem vobis ab initio non dixi, quia vobiscum eram. Et nunc vado ad eum qui misit me; et nemo ex vobis interrogat me: Quo vadis?
6. sed quia hæc locutus sum vobis, tristitia implevit cor vestrum.
7. Sed ego veritatem dico vobis: expedit vobis ut ego vadam: si enim non abiero, Paraclitus non veniet ad vos; si autem abiero, mittam eum ad vos.
8. Et cum venerit ille, arguet mundum de peccato, et de justitia, et de judicio.
9. De peccato quidem, quia non crediderunt in me.
10. De justitia vero, quia ad Patrem vado, et jam non videbitis me.
11. De judicio autem, quia princeps hujus mundi jam judicatus est.
12. Adhuc multa habeo vobis dicere, sed non potestis portare modo.
13. Cum autem venerit ille Spiritus veritatis, docebit vos omnem veritatem: non enim loquetur a semetipso, sed quæcumque audiet loquetur, et quæ ventura sunt annuntiabit vobis.
14. Ille me clarificabit, quia de meo accipiet, et annuntiabit vobis.
15. Omnia quæcumque habet Pater, mea sunt. Propterea dixi: quia de meo accipiet, et annuntiabit vobis.
16. Modicum, et jam non videbitis me; et iterum modicum, et videbitis me: quia vado ad Patrem.
17. Dixerunt ergo ex discipulis ejus ad invicem: Quid est hoc quod dicit nobis: Modicum, et non videbitis me; et iterum modicum, et videbitis me, et quia vado ad Patrem?
18. Dicebant ergo: Quid est hoc quod dicit: Modicum? nescimus quid loquitur.
19. Cognovit autem Jesus, quia volebant eum interrogare, et dixit eis: De hoc quæritis inter vos quia dixi: Modicum, et non videbitis me; et iterum modicum, et videbitis me.
20. Amen, amen dico vobis: quia plorabitis, et flebitis vos, mundus autem gaudebit; vos autem contristabimini, sed tristitia vestra vertetur in gaudium.
21. Mulier cum parit, tristitiam habet, quia venit hora ejus; cum autem pepererit puerum, jam non meminit pressuræ propter gaudium, quia natus est homo in mundum.
22. Et vos igitur nunc quidem tristitiam habetis, iterum autem videbo vos, et gaudebit cor vestrum: et gaudium vestrum nemo tollet a vobis.
23. Et in illo die me non rogabitis quidquam. Amen, amen dico vobis: si quid petieritis Patrem in nomine meo, dabit vobis.
24. Usque modo non petistis quidquam in nomine meo: petite, et accipietis, ut gaudium vestrum sit plenum.
25. Hæc in proverbiis locutus sum vobis. Venit hora cum jam non in proverbiis loquar vobis, sed palam de Patre annuntiabo vobis:
26. in illo die in nomine meo petetis: et non dico vobis quia ego rogabo Patrem de vobis:
27. ipse enim Pater amat vos, quia vos me amastis, et credidistis, quia ego a Deo exivi.
28. Exivi a Patre, et veni in mundum: iterum relinquo mundum, et vado ad Patrem.
29. Dicunt ei discipuli ejus: Ecce nunc palam loqueris, et proverbium nullum dicis:
30. nunc scimus quia scis omnia, et non opus est tibi ut quis te interroget: in hoc credimus quia a Deo existi.
31. Respondit eis Jesus: Modo creditis?
32. ecce venit hora, et jam venit, ut dispergamini unusquisque in propria, et me solum relinquatis: et non sum solus, quia Pater mecum est.
33. Hæc locutus sum vobis, ut in me pacem habeatis. In mundo pressuram habebitis: sed confidite, ego vici mundum.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 1854: The Gravity of Sin: Mortal and Venial Sin ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 729: The Spirit of Christ in the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1287: Confirmation in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 388: The Fall ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1433: Interior Penance ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 385: The Fall ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 243: The Father ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 687: "I Believe in the Holy Spirit" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1117: The Sacraments of the Church ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2466: Living in the Truth ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2615: In the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2671: The Way of Prayer ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 91: The Interpretation of the Heritage of Faith ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 244: The Father ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 485: "Conceived By the Power of the Holy Spirit and Born of the Virgin Mary" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 690: The Joint Mission of the Son and the Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2815: "Hallowed be Thy Name" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2795: "Who Art in Heaven" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 661: "He Ascended Into Heaven and Is Seated At the Right Hand of the Father" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1808: The Human Virtues ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “The Holy Spirit is the mysterious light that makes us see our sins and God's mercy.” — St. John Vianney, Catechism on the Holy Spirit, c. 1850 (On this theme: verse 8)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 8: The Holy Ghost, by his coming brought over many thousands, first, to a sense of their sin in not believing in Christ. Secondly, to a conviction of the justice of Christ, now sitting at the right hand of his Father. And thirdly, to a right apprehension of the judgment prepared for them that choose to follow Satan, who is already judged and condemned.
- Verse 13: See the annotation on chap. 14. ver. 26.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, May 4, 2027: Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter — Alleluia, See John 16:7, 13; Gospel, John 16:5-11
- Wed, May 5, 2027: Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter — Gospel, John 16:12-15
- Thu, May 6, 2027: Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter — Ascension — Gospel, John 16:16-20
- Fri, May 7, 2027: Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter — Gospel, John 16:20-23

14 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option).

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).