John 16:19-29

19 ¹Jesus knew that they wished to question Him, and He said to them, "Are you deliberating together * about this, that I said, '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, that ²you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but ³your grief will be turned into joy.

21 "⁴Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a child has been born into the world.

22 "Therefore ⁵you too have grief now; but ⁶I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

Prayer Promises

23 "⁷In that day ⁸you will not question Me about anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, ⁹if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you.

24 "¹⁰Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your ¹¹joy may be made full.

25 "These things I have spoken to you in ¹²figurative language; ¹³an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly of the Father.

26 "¹⁴In that day ¹⁵you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will request of the Father on your behalf;

27 for ¹⁶the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and ¹⁷have believed that ¹⁸I came forth from the Father.

28 "¹⁹I came forth from the Father and have come into the world; I am leaving the world again and ²⁰going to the Father."

29 His disciples said, "Lo, now You are speaking plainly and are not using ²¹a figure of speech.

Cross References

• 1. Mark 9:32; John 6:61
• 2. Mark 16:10; Luke 23:27
• 3. John 20:20
• 4. Isaiah 13:8; Isaiah 21:3; Isaiah 26:17; Isaiah 66:7; Hosea 13:13; Micah 4:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:3
• 5. John 16:6
• 6. John 16:16
• 7. John 14:20; John 16:26
• 8. John 16:19, 30
• 9. John 15:16
• 10. John 14:14
• 11. John 3:29; John 15:11
• 12. Matthew 13:34; John 10:6; John 16:29
• 13. John 16:2
• 14. John 14:20; John 16:23
• 15. John 16:19, 30
• 16. John 14:21, 23
• 17. John 2:11; John 16:30
• 18. John 8:42
• 19. John 8:42; John 16:30
• 20. John 13:1, 3; John 16:5, 10, 17
• 21. Matthew 13:34; John 10:6; John 16:25

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "grief"
• [b]. Lit "human being"
• [c]. Lit "proverbs;" or "figures of speech"
• [d]. Lit "proverbs;" or "figures of speech"
• [e]. Lit "saying a proverb"