20. Amen, amen I tell you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will celebrate. You will be filled with sorrow, but your sorrow will turn to joy!
21. “When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her hour has come. But when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.
22. So also you have sorrow now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you!
23. “In that day, you will ask Me nothing. Amen, amen I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
24. Up to now, you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be full.
25. “These things I have spoken to you in metaphors. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in metaphors, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
26. In that day, you will ask in My name—and I’m not telling you that I will ask the Father on your behalf.
27. For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from God.
28. I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”
29. His disciples say, “See, now You’re speaking plainly and not in metaphors.
30. Now we know that You know everything and have no need to be asked anything. By this we believe that You came forth from God.”
31. Yeshua answered them, “Do you now believe?
32. Look, the hour is coming—indeed has come—when you will be scattered, each to his own, and you will abandon Me. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.