Grief Will Turn to Joy

17 Then [some] of His disciples asked one another, “Why is He telling us, ‘In a little [while] you will not see Me, and then after a little [while] you will see Me’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?” 18 They kept asking, “Why is He saying, ‘a little [while]’? We do not understand what He is saying.”

19 Aware that they wanted to question Him, [Jesus] said to them, “Are you asking one another why I said, ‘In a little [while] you will not see Me, and then after a little [while] you will see Me’? 20 Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail [while] the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. 21 A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth [her] child, she forgets [her] anguish because of [her] joy that a child has been born into the world. 22 So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.