<p>16:33 <em>These things have I spoken to you, so that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good courage; I have overcome the world</em>- This promise of personal &quot;peace&quot; comes straight after the prediction of their collapse of faith and shameful abandonment of the Lord. &quot;Peace&quot; in the Bible usually refers to peace with God. He is saying that despite their failure, He had foreseen it and His death would deal with it, and the gift of the Spirit would involve the gift of peace in their hearts, despite their sin and weakness. They could therefore find peace with God despite their failure; and despite their tribulation in the Jewish world, particularly that which would come in the last days and AD70(Mk. 13:9), their peace with the Father and Son would make them courageous and strong in the face of all rejection by the Jewish world, in which they would have tribulation.</p><p>The Lord had &quot;overcome&quot; the Jewish world, and every form of this world; and He frequently uses the word in His letters to the churches in Rev. 2,3, encouraging us likewise to overcome. His spirit is to be ours. John too rather likes this word &quot;overcome&quot;, using it of how his converts had &quot;overcome the wicked one&quot; and the Jewish false teachers (1 Jn. 2:13,14; 4:4). &quot;The wicked one&quot; is therefore, in the first context, the Jewish world which the Lord overcame. This is why the terms &quot;satan&quot; and &quot;devil&quot; and other such titles are used about the Jewish world so often; see my chapter 'The Jewish Satan' in <em>The Real Devil</em>, chapter 2.</p>