John 16:18-28

18 So they were saying, “What does he mean by‘a little while’? ¹We do not know what he is talking about. ”

19 ²Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’?

20 Truly, truly, I say to you, ³you will weep and lament, but ⁴the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but ⁵your sorrow will turn into joy.

21 ⁶When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

22 ⁷So also you have sorrow now, but ⁸I will see you again, and ⁹your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

23 ¹⁰In that day you will ¹¹ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, ¹²whatever you ask of the Father in my name, ¹³he will give it to you.

24 Until now you have asked nothing in my name. ¹⁴Ask, and you will receive, ¹⁵that your joy may be full.

I Have Overcome the World

25 “I have said these things to you in figures of speech. ¹⁶The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.

26 In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf;

27 ¹⁷for the Father himself loves you, because ¹⁸you have loved me and ¹⁹have believed that I came from God. ^[a]

28 ²⁰I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now ²¹I am leaving the world and going to the Father. ”