John 16:12–22

¹²I still have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them^* now. ¹³But when he—the Spirit of truth—comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak from himself, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will proclaim to you the things to come. ¹⁴He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and will proclaim it^* to you. ¹⁵Everything that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he takes from what is mine and will proclaim it^* to you.

Jesus Predicts His Return to the Disciples

¹⁶“A little while and you will see me no more, and again a little while and you will see me. ¹⁷So some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he is saying to us, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going away to the Father’?” ¹⁸So they kept on saying, “What is this that he is saying, ‘A little while’? We do not understand what he is speaking about!”

¹⁹Jesus knew that they were wanting to ask him, and he said to them, “Are you deliberating with one another about this—that I said, ‘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, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will change to joy. ²¹A woman, when she gives birth, experiences pain because her hour has come. But when her^* child is born, she no longer remembers the affliction, on account of the joy that a human being has been born into the world. ²²So you also are experiencing sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy from you.