John 16:12–22

¹²“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.^{ap 13}When the Spirit of truth^aq comes, he will guide you into all the truth.^ar For he will not speak on his own, but he will speak whatever he hears. He will also declare to you what is to come. ¹⁴He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. ¹⁵Everything the Father^as has is mine.^at This is why I told you that he takes from what is mine and will declare it to you.^au

SORROW TURNED TO JOY

¹⁶“In a little while,^av you will no longer see me;^aw again in a little while, you will see me.”^C

¹⁷Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this he’s telling us: ‘In a little while, you will not see me; again a little while, you will see me,’ and, ‘Because I am going to the Father’^a?” ¹⁸They said, “What is this he is saying,^D ‘In a little while’? We don’t know what he’s talking about.”

¹⁹Jesus knew they wanted to ask him, and so he said to them, “Are you asking one another about what I said, ‘In a little while, you will not see me; again in a little while, you will see me’? ²⁰Truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn,^b but the world will rejoice. You will become sorrowful,^c but your sorrow will turn to joy. ²¹When a woman is in labor, she has pain^d because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child,^e she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world. ²²So you also have sorrow^A now. But I will see you again. Your hearts will rejoice,^f and no one will take away your joy from you.^g