John 16:16-24 - Jesus Predicts His Return To The Disciples

¹⁶ A little while, and ye no longer behold Me; and again a little while, and ye will see Me."

¹⁷ Some of His disciples, therefore, said to one another, "What is this that He saith to us, 'A little while, and ye behold Me not; and again a little while, and ye will see Me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father?'" ¹⁸ They said, therefore, "What is this that He saith, 'A little while?'??e know not what He saith!"

¹⁹ Jesus knew that they wished to ask Him, and He said to them, "Do ye inquire among yourselves about this that I said, 'A little while, and ye behold Me not, and again a little while, and ye will see Me!'

²⁰ Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice: ye will be made sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. ²¹ A woman, when she is in travail, has sorrow, because her hour came; but, when she bears the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born into the world. ²² And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one takes away from you. ²³ And in that day ye will ask nothing of Me: verily, verily, I say to you, if ye shall ask anything of the Father, He will give it you in My name. ²⁴ Hitherto ye asked nothing in My name; ask, and ye will receive, that your joy may be made full.