John 4:36
4:36 The one who reaps receives pay 1 and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.
John 5:35
5:35 He was a lamp that was burning and shining, 2 and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time 3 in his light.
John 16:20
16:20 I tell you the solemn truth, 4 you will weep 5 and wail, 6 but the world will rejoice; you will be sad, 7 but your sadness will turn into 8 joy.
John 16:22
16:22 So also you have sorrow 9 now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. 10
1 tn Or “a reward”; see L&N 38.14 and 57.173. This is something of a wordplay.
2 sn He was a lamp that was burning and shining. Sir 48:1 states that the word of Elijah was “a flame like a torch.” Because of the connection of John the Baptist with Elijah (see John 1:21 and the note on John’s reply, “I am not”), it was natural for Jesus to apply this description to John.
3 tn Grk “for an hour.”
4 tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”
5 tn Or “wail,” “cry.”
6 tn Or “lament.”
7 tn Or “sorrowful.”
8 tn Grk “will become.”
9 tn Or “distress.”
10 sn An allusion to Isa 66:14 LXX, which reads: “Then you will see, and your heart will be glad, and your bones will flourish like the new grass; and the hand of the Lord will be made known to his servants, but he will be indignant toward his enemies.” The change from “you will see [me]” to I will see you places more emphasis on Jesus as the one who reinitiates the relationship with the disciples after his resurrection, but v. 16 (you will see me) is more like Isa 66:14. Further support for seeing this allusion as intentional is found in Isa 66:7, which uses the same imagery of the woman giving birth found in John 16:21. In the context of Isa 66 the passages refer to the institution of the messianic kingdom, and in fact the last clause of 66:14 along with the following verses (15-17) have yet to be fulfilled. This is part of the tension of present and future eschatological fulfillment that runs throughout the NT, by virtue of the fact that there are two advents. Some prophecies are fulfilled or partially fulfilled at the first advent, while other prophecies or parts of prophecies await fulfillment at the second.