John 16:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

A woman. The woman. The article, in conjunction with the Hebraism "in that day", verses: John 16:23; John 16:26, in. dicates the woman (wife) of Revelation 12. See Isaiah 66:7-11.Micah 5:3. Compare Psalms 22:31.Hosea 13:13.Micah 4:9; Micah 4:10. The time is the time of Jacob's trouble (Jeremiah 30:7), the birth -pangs (sorrows, Matthew 24:8) which will result in the birth of the new Israel, the nation of Isaiah 66:8 and Matthew 21:43.

child. App-108 :

anguish. Greek. thlipsis, tribulation. Matthew 24:21; Matthew 24:29.

for. on account of. Greek. dia. App-104.John 16:2.

man. App-123.

is born. was born.

John 16:21

21 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.