however, you people need me here alive.
If I continue living here on earth, I will be able to work for the Lord. But what would I choose—to live or to die? I don’t know.
Let me assure you, it is better for you that I go away. I say this because when I go away I will send the Helper to you. But if I did not go, the Helper would not come.
It would be a hard choice. Sometimes I want to leave this life and be with Christ. That would be much better for me;