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1Jesus 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’?
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Truly, truly, I say to you,
2you will weep and lament, but
3the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but
4your sorrow will turn into joy.
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5When 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.
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6So also you have sorrow now, but
7I will see you again, and
8your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
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9In that day you will
10ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you,
11whatever you ask of the Father in my name,
12he will give it to you.
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Until now you have asked nothing in my name.
13Ask, and you will receive,
14that your joy may be full.
I Have Overcome the World
25 “I have said these things to you in figures of speech.
15The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.
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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;
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16for the Father himself loves you, because
17you have loved me and
18have believed that I came from God.
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19I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now
20I am leaving the world and going to the Father. ”
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His disciples said, “Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not
21using figurative speech!