John 16:22

John 16:22 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
• New International Version (NIV)So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
• English Standard Version (ESV)So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
• New King James Version (NKJV)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.

Context of John 16:22

20I tell you the solemn truth, you will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice; you will be sad, but your sadness will turn into joy. 21When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world. So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. 23At that time you will ask me nothing. I tell you the solemn truth, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. 24Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.

John 16:22 word by word

Καὶ ὑμεῖς οὖν νῦν μὲν λύπην ἔχετε, πάλιν δὲ ὄψομαι ὑμᾶς καὶ χαρήσεται ὑμῶν ἡ καρδία, καὶ τὴν χαρὰν ὑμῶν οὐδεὶς αἴρει ἀφ᾽ ὑμῶν,Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Andκαίkai · andG2532
• yeσύsu · youG4771
• nowνῦνnun · nowG3568
• thereforeοὖνoun · therefore/thenG3767
• ·μένmen · on the other handG3303
• haveἔχωechō · to have/beG2192
• sorrowλύπηlupē · griefG3077
• butδέde · thenG1161
• I will seeὁράωhoraō · to see: seeG3708
• againπάλινpalin · againG3825
• heartὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• heartκαρδίαkardia · heartG2588
• shall rejoiceχαίρωchairō · to rejoiceG5463
• joyχαράchara · joyG5479
• no manοὐδείςoudeis · noneG3762
• takethαἴρωairō · to take upG142
• fromἀπόapo · away fromG575

Cross-references for John 16:22

• John 16:6Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you.
• John 14:1“Do not let your hearts be distressed. You believe in God; believe also in me.
• John 20:19On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the disciples had gathered together and locked the doors of the place because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
• John 21:7Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” So Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, tucked in his outer garment (for he had nothing on underneath it), and plunged into the sea.
• Isaiah 25:9At that time they will say, “Look, here is our God! We waited for him and he delivered us. Here is the Lord! We waited for him. Let’s rejoice and celebrate his deliverance!”
• Isaiah 65:13So this is what the sovereign Lord says: “Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry! Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty! Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated!
• Isaiah 66:9“Do I bring a baby to the birth opening and then not deliver it?” asks the Lord. “Or do I bring a baby to the point of delivery and then hold it back?” asks your God.
• Matthew 28:8So they left the tomb quickly, with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples.
• Luke 24:41And while they still could not believe it (because of their joy) and were amazed, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”
• Acts 2:46Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts,
• Acts 13:52And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
• 1 Peter 1:8You have not seen him, but you love him. You do not see him now but you believe in him, and so you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,
• John 4:14But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”
• Job 34:29But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,
• Psalms 146:2I will praise the Lord as long as I live! I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist!
• Isaiah 12:2Look, God is my deliverer! I will trust in him and not fear. For the Lord gives me strength and protects me; he has become my deliverer.”

Commentaries on John 16:22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22Your joy no man taketh from you - Or, shall take away. Some excellent MSS. and versions read the verb in the future tense. Our Lord's meaning appears to have been this: that his resurrection should be so completely demonstrated to them, that they should never have a doubt concerning it; and consequently that their joy should be great and permanent, knowing that the atonement was made, the victory gained, and the kingdom of heaven opened to all believers…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22I will see you again - After my resurrection. Your joy no man taketh from you - You shall be so firmly persuaded that I have risen and that I am the Messiah, that neither the threats nor persecutions of men shall ever be able to shake your faith and produce doubt or unbelief, and thus take away your joy. This prediction was remarkably fulfilled. It is evident that after his ascension not one of the apostles ever doubted for a moment that he had risen from…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16-22Verses 16-22 It is good to consider how near our seasons of grace are to an end, that we may be quickened to improve them. But the sorrows of the disciples would soon be turned into joy; as those of a mother, at the sight of her infant. The Holy Spirit would be their Comforter, and neither men nor devils, neither sufferings in life nor in death, would ever deprive them of their joy. Believers have joy or sorrow, according to their sight of Christ, and the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16-33a little while: Jesus repeated this phrase to comfort his disciples. He wanted them to know that their separation from him would not last long. Although he would soon leave them, he would return to them again.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-2216-22. A little while, and ye shall not see me; and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father--The joy of the world at their not seeing Him seems to show that His removal from them by death was what He meant; and in that case, their joy at again seeing Him points to their transport at His reappearance amongst them on His Resurrection, when they could no longer doubt His identity. At the same time the sorrow of the widowed…Read the comment

Topics related to John 16:22

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Jesus Continued
• Joy

In the dictionaries

• Birth
• Desirous
• Reprove
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• Tribulation
• Affliction
• Atonement
• Comforter
• Eschatology of the New Testament
• Holy Spirit

Commentaries on John 16

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings