John 16:20-29

20Amen, amen I tell you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will celebrate. You will be filled with sorrow, but your sorrow will turn to joy!

21“When 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 human being has been born into the world.

22So also you have sorrow now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you!

23“In that day, you will ask Me nothing. Amen, amen I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

24Up to now, you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be full.

25“These things I have spoken to you in metaphors. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in metaphors, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

26In that day, you will ask in My name—and I’m not telling you that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

27For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from God.

28I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

29His disciples say, “See, now You’re speaking plainly and not in metaphors.