Your Sorrow Will Turn to Joy

16A little while, and you no longer see me; and again a little while, and you will see me.

17So some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he is saying to us: ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’? And, ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”

18So they were saying, “What is this that he says, ‘A little while’? We do not know what he is saying.”

19Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Are you discussing this with one another, that I said, ‘A little while, and you no longer see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’?”

20Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; you will be grieved, but your grief will become joy.

21When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come; but when she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the distress because of the joy that a child has been born into the world.

22So you also now have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

23And in that day you will ask me nothing. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give to you.

24Until now you have asked for nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, so that your joy may be full.