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. Compare have love (John 13:35; 1 John 4:16); have peace (John 16:33); have trust (2 Corinthians 3:4); have boldness (Hebrews 10:19; 1 John 2:28). A crucial aspect of that encouragement is the fact that pain and suffering are temporary, as compared to the blessings offered by life in Christ (John 10:10; 14:6). I. χαρήσεται ὑμῶν ἡ καρδιά, καὶ ὄψεσθε καὶ χαρήσεται ἡ καρδιά ὑμῶν, And your heart shall rejoice, and this joy of yours no one taketh, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. This form of expression occurs frequently in the New Testament, to denote the possession or experience of virtues, sensations, desires, emotions, intellectual or spiritual faculties, faults, or defects. He sees them now in the depth of their sorrow, and feels with them in that. And you now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man takes from you. John 16:22. Copyright © 2020, Bible Study Tools. I. 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 removed from them; and as it is with every believer, when Christ is absent: for though there are many things that cause sorrow now, as sin, Satan, and afflictive dispensations of providence, yet nothing more sensibly touches believers to the quick, and gives them more uneasiness, than when Christ is out of sight: the reasons are, because he is so nearly related to them, being their everlasting Father, kind husband, loving brother, and faithful friend; and because they are so strongly affected to him, there is none like him in their esteem in heaven and in earth: he is the person whom their souls love; he is the very life of their souls; his favour, his gracious presence is life to them, and his absence is as death; nor can they be easy, but are restless, and upon the inquiry after him, until he returns to them, which he does in his own time; and therefore this sorrow is but now, for the present, it is not perpetual. It is evident that after his ascension not one of the apostles ever doubted for a moment that he had risen from the dead. JOHN 16:21-22 21 “A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the suffering, for joy that a … All rights reserved. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. Some of the better MSS. But the joy of the disciples was durable; their risen Lord would never die more; the blessings of grace, such as redemption, pardon, righteousness, and atonement, would, and do ever remain as the foundation of solid joy: nor could a stranger intermeddle with it; (oudeiv) , "not one", either man or devil could take it away, not by all the reproaches they could cast upon them, or persecutions they could follow them with: and so, though a believer's joy may be damped by sin, and Satan, and the world, it may not be always in lively exercise; yet the matter of it always remains in Christ, and the principle of it in themselves can never be destroyed, but will issue in everlasting joy in another world. ... 16:22 kaiV uJmei'" ou nu'n meVn luvphn e[cete: Jesus now repeats the points he had made before the illustration (verse 20) with additional details. (Comp. John 16:22 New International Version (NIV). Wednesday, October 17, 2018 Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for John 16:22 ← Back to Chuck Smith's Bio & Resources. shall take from you.” “No man” is better rendered indefinitely, no one, as, e.g., in John 10:18; John 10:29. The joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment, and the joy of the chief priests, Scribes, and Pharisees, was a short lived one, on account of Christ's death; for Jesus was soon raised from the dead, and the apostles were filled with the Spirit, and went forth boldly preaching in the name of Christ, to the great grief of these men. And your joy no man taketh from you. Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for John 16:22 ← Back to Chuck Smith's Bio & Resources. Read John 16:22 Using Other Translations. It is stronger than the verb which expresses any one of these. A. At John 16:19 Jesus had said ‘ye shall see me,’ but now He says ‘I will see you.’ It is the blessed reciprocity of intercourse between Him and His own. 'The Dark Night before Dawn' — John 16:16-22. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. But I will see you again; as he did see his disciples upon his resurrection once and again, for the space of forty days, at certain times, by intervals: and so, in a spiritual sense, he comes and sees his people, makes them a visit, manifests himself unto them, and abides with them: they are always under his omniscient eye; he always sees them as God; and they are always under his eye of love, grace, and mercy, as Mediator: but this means such a seeing of them, as that they see him as well as he sees them; and is expressive of a delightful intercourse between Christ and them, than which nothing is more desirable: and your heart shall rejoice: as did the hearts of the disciples, when they saw Christ risen from the dead; and as the hearts of believers do, when Christ so looks upon them that they can view him with an eye of faith; such a sight is a heart rejoicing one. The disciples have been commanded to pray "in the name of" Jesus (John 16:23–24). "Their sorrow will be turned into joy." To see the glory and beauty of Christ's person, the fulness and suitableness of him as a Saviour; to have an appropriating view of him as such; or to see him so as to have sensible communion with him, must needs fill the heart of a believer with joy unspeakable, and full of glory: such a sight of Christ will rejoice the heart under a sense of sin, the pollution and guilt of it, when tempted by Satan, or under God's afflicting hand, and even in the view of death and eternity. But I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice. What was once spoken in vague proverbs will be made clear (John 16:25). Matthew 28:20, and Romans 8:38-39, and Notes there.). He will see them again in the time of their joy, and will rejoice with them in that. What does John 16:22 mean? 19 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me? But I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice.—In John 16:19 He had said “Ye shall see.” This is the obverse of the same truth. And your joy no man taketh from you.—The reading is doubtful. John 16:22. καὶ ὑμεῖς … ὑμῶν, “and you accordingly,” in keeping with this natural arrangement conspicuous in the woman’s case, “have at present sorrow”. 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. In Matthew 17:20, Christ does not say if ye believe, but if ye have faith; if faith, in ever so small a degree, is possessed by you as a conscious, living principle and motive. He will again. “The Meaning of John 16:8-11,” Harvard Theological Review 14 (1921): 103-5. . Jesus says (John 16:22), “Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.” The dramatic change in the disciples from grief to lasting joy was founded on seeing the risen Savior. 20 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. "Your heart shall rejoice and your joy no man taketh from you." "Your heart shall rejoice and your joy no man taketh from you." No persecution or trial was able to shake their faith; and thus, amid all their afflictions, they had an unshaken source of joy. ESV 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. KJV 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. To see the glory and beauty of Christ's person, the fulness and suitableness of him as a Saviour; to have an appropriating view of him as such; or to see him so as to have sensible communion with him, must needs fill the heart of a believer with joy unspeakable, and full of glory: such a sight of Christ will rejoice the heart under a sense of sin, the pollution and guilt of it, when tempted by Satan, or under God's afflicting hand, and even in the view of death and eternity.