ehold me not; and
again a little while, and ye shall see me': and 'Because I go to the
Father'?"

They said therefore, "What is this that he saith, 'A little while'?
We know not what he saith."

Jesus perceived that they were desirous to ask him, and he said unto
them, "Do ye inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A
little while, and ye behold me not, and again a little while, and ye
shall see me?' Verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and
lament, but the world shall rejoice: ye shall be sorrowful, but your
sorrow shall be turned into joy. 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. And ye therefore now have sorrow: but I will see
you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one taketh
away from you. And in that day ye shall ask me no question. Verily,
verily, I say unto you, If ye shall ask anything of the Father, he
will give it you in my name. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my
name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full.

"These things have I spoken unto you in dark sayings: the hour cometh,
when I shall no more speak unto you in dark sayings, but shall tell
you plainly of the Father. In that day ye shall ask in my name: and I
say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you; for the Father
himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I
came forth from the Father. I came out from the Father, and am come
into the world; again, I leave the world, and go unto the Father."

His disciples say, "Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no
dark saying. Now know we that thou knowest all things, and needest not
that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest
forth from God."

Jesus answered them, "Do ye now believe? Behold, the hour cometh, yea,
is come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall
leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In
the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer: I have overcome
the world."

THE INTERCESSORY PRAYER.

These things spake Jesus; and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said,
"Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that the Son may glorify
thee: even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that to