Sorrow Will Turn into Joy

¹⁶ “A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again a little while, and you will see me.”^(A)

³³ Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little while longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.^(A)

⁴⁰ but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear,^{(A) 41} not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.^(B)

³ After his suffering^[a] he presented himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.^(A)

²⁸ I came from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and am going to the Father.”^(A)

²² So you have pain now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.^(A)

² looking to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith, who for the sake of^[a] the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.^(A)

¹⁸ “I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. ¹⁹ In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. ²⁰ On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.^{(A) 21} They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me, and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”^{(B) 22} Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?” ²³ Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.^{(C) 24} Whoever does not love me does not keep my words, and the word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who sent me.^(D)

³ Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he had come from God and was going to God,^(A)

⁵ But now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’^(A)