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.
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. The joy of the world at His disappearance seems to show that the thing meant was His removal from them by death. In that case, the joy of the disciples at seeing Him again must refer to their transport at His reappearance among them on His resurrection, when they could no longer doubt His identity. But the words go beyond this: for as His personal stay among them after His resurrection was brief, and His actual manifestations but occasional, while the language is that of permanence, we must view His return to them at His resurrection as virtually uninterrupted by His ascension to glory (according to His way of speaking in John 14:18-20). But the words carry us on even to the transport of the widowed Church when her Lord shall come again to receive her to Himself, that where He is, there she may be also.