John 16:6
Good News Translation
And now that I have told you, your hearts are full of sadness.

New Revised Standard Version
But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts.

Contemporary English Version
You are very sad from hearing all of this.

New American Bible
But because I told you this, grief has filled your hearts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

John 16:20-22 Amen, amen, I say to you, that you shall lament and weep, but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be made sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. . . .

John 14:1,27,28 Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God: believe also in me. . . .

John 20:11-15 But Mary stood at the sepulchre without, weeping. Now as she was weeping, she stooped down and looked into the sepulchre, . . .

Luke 22:45 And when he rose up from prayer and was come to the disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow.

Luke 24:17 And he said to them: What are these discourses that you hold one with another as you walk and are sad?

Context
The Promise of the Holy Spirit
5But I told you not these things from the beginning, because I was with you. And now I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me: Whither goest thou? 6But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart. 7But I tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go. For if I go not, the Paraclete will not come to you: but if I go, I will send him to you.…
Cross References
John 14:1
Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God: believe also in me.

John 16:22
So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you.

John 16:5
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