Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
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Gill's Exposition
And ye now therefore have sorrow,.... This is the application of the preceding case. As it is with a woman in travail, when her hour is come, so it was now with them, and would be when Christ was…
Barnes' Notes
Ye shall weep ... - At my crucifixion, sufferings, and death. Compare Luk 23:27. The world - Wicked men. The term world is frequently used in this sense. See Joh 16:8. It refers particularly, here, to…
Adam Clarke
Ye shall weep and lament - To see me crucified and laid in the grave.
But the world shall rejoice - The chief priests, scribes, Pharisees, and persecuting Jews in general, will triumph, hoping that…
Our Lord Jesus, for the comfort of his sorrowful disciples, here promises that he would visit them again.
I. Observe the intimation he gave them of the comfort he designed them, Joh 16:16. Here he…
Cambridge Bible
ye shall weep and lament In the Greek -ye" comes last in emphatic contrast to the world. The verbs express the outward manifestation of grief. Comp. Joh 20:11; Luk 23:27. The world rejoiced at being…
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