John 16:20-28

English Standard Version

²⁰ Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(A)you will weep and lament, but ^(B)the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but ^(C)your sorrow will turn into joy. ^21 (D)When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. ^22 (E)So also you have sorrow now, but ^(F)I will see you again, and ^(G)your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. ^23 (H)In that day you will ^(I)ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(J)whatever you ask of the Father in my name, ^(K)he will give it to you. ²⁴ Until now you have asked nothing in my name. ^(L)Ask, and you will receive, ^(M)that your joy may be full.

I Have Overcome the World

²⁵ “I have said these things to you in figures of speech. ^(N)The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father. ²⁶ In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf; ^27 (O)for the Father himself loves you, because ^(P)you have loved me and ^(Q)have believed that I came from God.^{[a] 28 (R)}I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now ^(S)I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”