Your Sorrow Will Turn into Joy

¹⁶a“A little while, and you will see me no longer; and bagain a little while, and you will see me.” ¹⁷So csome of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, d‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and, e‘because I am going to the Father’?” ¹⁸So they were saying, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? fWe do not know what he is talking about.” ¹⁹gJesus 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’? ²⁰Truly, truly, I say to you, hyou will weep and lament, but ithe world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but jyour sorrow will turn into joy. ²¹kWhen 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. ²²lSo also you have sorrow now, but mI will see you again, and nyour hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. ²³oIn that day you will pask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, qwhatever you ask of the Father in my name, rhe will give it to you. ²⁴Until now you have asked nothing in my name. sAsk, and you will receive, tthat your joy may be full.

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