These things have I spoken to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.

He that has the bride, is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly on account of the voice of the bridegroom. This, my joy, is therefore complete.

Verily, verily I say to you, you shall weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow, be cause her hour has come; but when the child is born, she no longer remembers the pain, for joy that a man is born into the world.

You, therefore, have sorrow now; but I shall see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one takes from you.

Till this time you have asked for nothing in my name; ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.

And now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.