18 They said therefore, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not¹ know what He is saying.”  ‡

19 Now Jesus knew that they desired to ask Him, and He said to them, “Are you inquiring among yourselves about what I said, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’?

21 ^aA woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.  ‡

22 Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and ^ayour heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.  ‡