When he comes

“I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming.” (JN 16: 12-13)

Always protected by God’s presence, now we can expect that “the Spirit of truth, will guide us to all truth.” God is patient and knows that He has “much more to tell us, but we cannot bear it now,” so He comes at the right time “and will declare to us the things that are coming”—not a reference to new predictions about the future, but interpretations of what has already occurred or been said. We need to know what the Father expects from us—the Holy Spirit “will speak what he hears.”

“I will ask the Father and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always.”