John 16:18-22
John 16:18
So they were saying, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not know what He is talking about.”
John 16:19
Jesus knew that they wanted to question Him, and He said to them, “Are you deliberating together about this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you are not going to see Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me’?
John 16:20
Truly, truly I say to you that you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but your grief will be turned into joy!
John 16:21
Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a child has been born into the world.
John 16:22
Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one is going to take your joy away from you. Prayer Promises