This passage summarizes the general message of that discourse: that hardship and persecution will come, but believers should remain faithful.

31 “You believe at last!” Jesus answered. 32 “But a time is coming, and has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home.

John 16:31-33 carries a message of both warning and assurance. Jesus addresses His disciples' belief and foretells the challenges they will face.

Peace in Christ is the only true peace, in him alone believers have it. Through him we have peace with God, and so in him we have peace in our own minds. We ...

Jesus replied, “Do you now believe? Look, a time is coming—and has come—when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left.

1. Jesus taught His disciples to be upbeat, confident and strong in the power of our heavenly Father.

Jesus looks into their hearts and brings them back to the grim realities that he and they face. He knows how they will fail - you will leave me alone.

In Jesus' final instruction, Jesus teaches how his disciples can have joy and peace that cannot be take away from them.

Jesus warned His disciples of coming opposition because He did not want them to be surprised and stumbled by it.

Jesus answered them, do ye now believe? Not as calling their faith in question; or as denying they had any; or as despising it for the smallness of it.