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John 16 is the sixteenth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records Jesus ' continued Farewell Discourse to his disciples, set on the last night before his crucifixion. In this chapter, Jesus speaks about the work of the Holy Spirit, the joy of the believers and his victory over the world. [ 1]
The Greek text used by the KJV translators is 166 words long, using a vocabulary of (very approximately) 140 words. [117] Yet, out of that small number, 16 words do not appear elsewhere in the Gospel of Mark, 5 words are used here in a different way than used elsewhere in Mark, and 4 phrases do not appear elsewhere in Mark. [118]
The New International Version ( NIV) is a translation of the Bible into contemporary English. Published by Biblica, the complete NIV was released in 1978 with a minor revision in 1984 and a major revision in 2011. The NIV relies on recently-published critical editions of the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts. [ 1][ 2]
According to 19th-century text critics Henry Alford and F. H. A. Scrivener the passage was added by John in a second edition of the Gospel along with 5:3.4 and the 21st chapter. [ 15 ] On the other hand, a number of scholars have strongly defended the Johannine authorship of these verses.
The New International Reader's Version (NIrV) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Translated by the International Bible Society (now Biblica) following a similar philosophy as the New International Version (NIV), but written in a simpler form of English, this version seeks to make the Bible more accessible for children and people who have difficulty reading English, such as ...
The New Living Translation ( NLT) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Published in 1996 by Tyndale House Foundation, the NLT was created "by 90 leading Bible scholars." [4] The NLT relies on recently published critical editions of the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts. [1]
t. e. The Gospel of John[ a] ( Ancient Greek: Εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ Ἰωάννην, romanized : Euangélion katà Iōánnēn) is the fourth of the New Testament 's four canonical gospels. It contains a highly schematic account of the ministry of Jesus, with seven "signs" culminating in the raising of Lazarus (foreshadowing the ...
New Testament people named John. v. t. e. The Second Epistle of John [a] is a book of the New Testament attributed to John the Evangelist, traditionally thought to be the author of the other two epistles of John, and the Gospel of John (though this is disputed). Most modern scholars believe this is not John the Apostle, but in general there is ...