A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being 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...