Uh ... no.John 16, NASB
7 "But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
8 And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment;
9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me;
10 and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me;
11 and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged."
If He was speaking only to His apostles, why did He mention the world? You can't slice and dice Scripture just to make it read in support of your beliefs. That is precisely what the multiple warnings in the Bible regard that say not to add or take away from the Word.
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to whom he also showed himself alive—After his resurrection Jesus remained on earth "by the space of forty days" before he ascended. He made many appearances to his apostles during this time; we have a record of some of these appearances in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Jesus presented himself to them under different circumstances in such a way that they could not doubt that he had been raised from the dead. "By many proofs," he established the fact of his resurrection. The resurrection was the evidence that Jesus' death was not mere martyrdom, but trium phant atonement. The resurrection was to be the subject of the preaching of the apostles, they were left without a doubt as to his resurrection.
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and, being assembled together with them, he charged them—Among those things that Jesus taught his disciples during this period of forty days was "repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem: ... but tarry ye in the city, until ye be clothed with power from on high." (
Luke 24:47-49.) The law was to go forth from Zion, and the word of God from Jerusalem. (
Isa. 2:3.) The apostles were all Galileans far from home and in danger (
John 20:19), but as Jesus had been denied the home comforts of Nazareth (
Luke 4:16), so his disciples were all to remain in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came. It is called "the promise of my Father." (
Luke 24:49;
John 16:16-27;
15:26.) Jesus had also emphasized this promise. (
Luke 12:11, 12;
John 14 to 16.)
Jesus was speaking to his apostles.