John 16:20-29

20Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, ye, but the world shall rejoice; and ye will be grieved, but your grief shall be turned to joy.

21A woman, when she gives birth to a child, has grief because her hour has come; but when the child is born, she no longer remembers the trouble, on account of the joy that a man has been born into the world.

22And ye now therefore have grief; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes from you.

23And in that day ye shall demand nothing of me: verily, verily, I say to you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give you.

24Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

25These things I have spoken to you in allegories; the hour is coming that I will no longer speak to you in allegories, but will declare to you openly concerning the Father.

26In that day ye shall ask in my name; and I say not to you that I will demand of the Father for you,

27for the Father himself has affection for you, because ye have had affection for me, and have believed that I came out from 1God.

28I came out from the Father and have come into the world; again, I leave the world and go to the Father.

29His disciples say to him, Lo, now thou speakest openly and utterest no allegory.