A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world.
Verse 21. (p) "A woman when she has travail"
Now you must ask quickly; your season of grace is ending and He withdraws from sight at death and ascension. Yet speedily He returns, in resurrection within forty hours, and through the Spirit's presence thereafter. His farewell is not final.
AI summary
Commenting on John 16:16-22
In that day ye shall ask me nothing,.... Meaning, not the whole Gospel dispensation, so often called, in prophetic language, "that day"; and is, in the New Testament, opposed to the night of Jewish and Gentile darkness; and, in comparison of the former dispensation, is a time of great spiritual light and knowledge: nor the latter part of that day, when there will be no...