16:21. A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
16:22. So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you.
16:23. And in that day you shall not ask me any thing. Amen, amen, I say to you: if you ask the Father any thing in my name, he will give it you.
16:24. Hitherto, you have not asked any thing in my name. Ask, and you shall receive; that your joy may be full.
16:25. These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the Father.
16:26. In that day, you shall ask in my name: and I say not to you that I will ask the Father for you.
16:27. For the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came out from God.
16:28. I came forth from the Father and am come into the world: again I leave the world and I go to the Father.
16:29. His disciples say to him: Behold, now thou speakest plainly and speakest no proverb.
16:30. Now we know that thou knowest all things and thou needest not that any man should ask thee. By this we believe that thou camest forth from God.