John 16:21 BSB — MannaFest

John 16:21

A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.

BSB

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ASV

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow,.... As was said she should have, Gen 3:16; This is God's ordination and appointment for sin: because her hour is come; is at hand; the fixed time in nature is up, and there is no avoiding it: but as soon as she is delivered of the child; for though the sorrow is great, yet there is a deliverance, and she is saved in child bearing: when she remembereth no more the anguish; the sharp pains she has endured in her travail; for joy that a man is born into the world.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

For joy that a man is born - Ανθρωπος is put here for a human creature, whether male or female; as homo among the Romans denoted either man or woman.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

At the same time the sorrow of the widowed Church in the absence of her Lord in the heavens, and her transport at His personal return, are certainly here expressed.

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Original language & word study

29 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἡ	hē	The	G3588 →
γυνὴ	gunē	woman	G1135 →
ὅταν	hotan	when	G3752 →
τίκτῃ	tiktē	she may be giving birth	G5088 →
λύπην	lupēn	pain	G3077 →
ἔχει,	echei	has,	G2192 →
ὅτι	hoti	because	G3754 →
ἦλθεν	ēlthen	has come	G2064 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
ὥρα	hōra	hour	G5610 →
αὐτῆς·	autēs	of her;	G846 →
ὅταν	hotan	when	G3752 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
γεννήσῃ	gennēsē	she may bring forth	G1080 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
παιδίον,	paidion	child,	G3813 →
οὐκέτι	ouketi	no longer	G3756 →G2089 →
μνημονεύει	mnēmoneuei	she remembers	G3421 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
θλίψεως	thlipseōs	tribulation	G2347 →
διὰ	dia	on account of	G1223 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
χαράν,	charan	joy	G5479 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
ἐγεννήθη	egennēthē	has been born	G1080 →
ἄνθρωπος	anthrōpos	a man	G444 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
κόσμον.¶	kosmon	world.	G2889 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Thessalonians 5:3
While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
leads to
- Luke 21:34–35
  But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
- Matthew 24:37–39
  As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.
- Luke 17:26–30
  Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:
- Revelation 18:7–8
  As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow…
Through
Psalms 113:9
He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
leads to
- Psalms 68:6
  God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
- 1 Samuel 2:5
  The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
- Genesis 30:22–23
  Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,
- Genesis 21:5–7
  Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

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About John