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In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me. ”
Grief Will Turn to Joy
17 Then some of His disciples asked one another, “Why is He telling us, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”
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They kept asking, “Why is He saying, ‘a little while’? We do not understand what He is saying.”
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Aware that they wanted to question Him, Jesus said to them, “Are you asking one another why I said, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’?
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Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
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A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
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So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
Ask in My Name
23 In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Truly, truly, I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
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Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
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I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
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In that day you will ask in My name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.
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For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.
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I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”
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His disciples said, “See, now You are speaking plainly and without figures of speech.
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Now we understand that You know all things and that You have no need for anyone to question You. Because of this, we believe that You came from God.”
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“Do you finally believe?” Jesus replied.
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“Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.
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I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”