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  "id": "john-16-16",
  "source": "John",
  "pericope": "Sorrow Turned to Joy",
  "chapter": 16,
  "verse_start": 16,
  "verse_end": 24,
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      "v": 16,
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      "v": 16,
      "text": "“A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”",
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      "v": 17,
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      "v": 17,
      "text": "Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us,"
    },
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      "v": 17,
      "text": "‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’",
      "wj": true
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      "v": 17,
      "text": "and,"
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      "v": 17,
      "text": "‘Because I go to the Father’",
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      "v": 17,
      "text": "?”"
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      "v": 18,
      "text": "They said therefore, “What is this that he says,"
    },
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      "v": 18,
      "text": "‘A little while’",
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      "v": 18,
      "text": "? We don’t know what he is saying.”"
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      "v": 19,
      "text": "Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them,"
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      "v": 19,
      "text": "“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’?",
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      "v": 20,
      "text": "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.",
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      "v": 21,
      "text": "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.",
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      "v": 22,
      "text": "Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.",
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      "v": 23,
      "text": "“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.",
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      "v": 24,
      "text": "Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.",
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      "v": 16,
      "text": "A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.",
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      "v": 17,
      "break": "p"
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      "v": 17,
      "text": "Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?"
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      "v": 18,
      "text": "They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith."
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      "v": 19,
      "text": "Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them,"
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      "v": 19,
      "text": "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?",
      "wj": true
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      "v": 20,
      "text": "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.",
      "wj": true
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      "v": 21,
      "text": "A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.",
      "wj": true
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      "v": 22,
      "text": "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.",
      "wj": true
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      "v": 23,
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      "v": 23,
      "text": "And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.",
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    {
      "v": 24,
      "text": "Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.",
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