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.
23 “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. aMost assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you.
24 Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, athat your joy may be bfull.
Jesus Christ Has Overcome the World
25 “These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but I will tell you aplainly about the Father.
26 In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you;
27 afor the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and bhave believed that I came forth from God.
28 aI came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.”
29 His disciples said to Him, “See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figure of speech!
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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