Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’?
Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice.
You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
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.