John 16:16-24

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

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 in a little while, you will see me,’ and, ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”

18They said, “What is this he is saying, ‘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, but the world will rejoice. You will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy.

21When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.

22So you also have sorrow now. But I will see you again. Your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy from you.

23“In that day you will not ask me anything. Truly I tell you, anything you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.

24Until now you have asked for nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.