John 16:12–22

¹²“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now. ^b13When the Spirit of truth ^ccomes, He will guide you into all the truth. ^dFor 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 ^ehas is Mine. ^fThis is why I told you that He takes from what is Mine and will declare it to you. ^g

Sorrow Turned to Joy

¹⁶“A little while ^hand you will no longer see Me; ⁱagain a little while and you will see Me.” ^j

¹⁷Therefore some of His disciples said to one another, “What is this He tells us: ‘A little while and you will not see Me; again a little while and you will see Me’; and, ‘because I am going to the Father’ ^k?” ¹⁸They said, “What is this He is saying, ^l‘A little while’? We don’t know what He’s talking about!”

¹⁹Jesus knew they wanted to question Him, so He said to them, “Are you asking one another about what I said, ‘A little while and you will not see Me; again a little while and you will see Me’?

²⁰“^•I assure you: You will weep and wail, ^mbut the world will rejoice. You will become sorrowful, ⁿbut your sorrow will turn to joy. ²¹When a woman is in labor she has pain ^obecause her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, ^pshe no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world. ²²So you also have sorrow ^qnow. But I will see you again. Your hearts will rejoice, ^rand no one will rob you of your joy. ^s