Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

John 16
¹⁶ "A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me, because I go to the Father."
¹⁷ Then some of His disciples said among themselves, "What is this that He says to us, ’A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’; and, ’because I go to the Father’?"
¹⁸ They said therefore, "What is this that He says, ’A little while’? We do not know what He is saying."
¹⁹ Now Jesus knew that they desired to ask Him, and He said to them, "Are you inquiring among yourselves about what I said, ’A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’?
²⁰ Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
²¹ A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.
²² Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.
²³ And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you.
²⁴ Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
²⁵ "These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.
²⁶ In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you;