“Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them,“Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’?”
John 16:19 (WEB)
Context Reading
17Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us,‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’and,‘Because I go to the Father’?” 18They said therefore, “What is this that he says,‘A little while’? We don’t know what he is saying.” 19Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them,“Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’? 20Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. 21A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.