22 So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
22 So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
22 The sadness you have right now is similar to that pain, but the coming joy is also similar. When I see you again, you'll be full of joy, and it will be a joy no one can rob from you.
22 Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.
22 So you have sorrow now, but I will see you again; then you will rejoice, and no one can rob you of that joy.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 16:22
Commentary on John 16:16-22
(Read John 16:16-22)
It is good to consider how near our seasons of grace are to an end, that we may be quickened to improve them. But the sorrows of the disciples would soon be turned into joy; as those of a mother, at the sight of her infant. The Holy Spirit would be their Comforter, and neither men nor devils, neither sufferings in life nor in death, would ever deprive them of their joy. Believers have joy or sorrow, according to their sight of Christ, and the tokens of his presence. Sorrow is coming on the ungodly, which nothing can lessen; the believer is an heir to joy which no one can take away. Where now is the joy of the murderers of our Lord, and the sorrow of his friends?