Therefore I sent him the more speedily: that seeing him again, you may rejoice, and I may be without sorrow.
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.
Desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy,
And I wrote this same to you; that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow, from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
Being grieved most of all for the word which he had said, that they should see his face no more. And they brought him on his way to the ship.
And said to his son: I am not deprived of seeing thee. Moreover God hath shewed me thy seed.
Receive him therefore with all joy in the Lord; and treat with honour such as he is.