John 16:20
Neutral key: nrf1:JHN.016.020
About the book John Trend of this verse since 2000
Which lectionaries prescribe this verse
Bible text
Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
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Statistics
- 19 Verse-level uses Counting rule CR-BASE: every citation of this verse, also through a reference to its whole chapter.
- 19 Explicit citations Counting rule CR-EXPLICIT-VERSE, as in the Top 100: only citations that name this verse.
- #739 Rank Rank 739 of 19,199 verses with explicit citations; tied verses share a rank.
- mapped Mapping Position 26,871 in the sequence prot66.nrf, New Testament
19 of the verse-level uses are a lower bound (repetitions not known exactly).
Persons in this verse
- Jesusvia pronoun
"Via pronoun": the verse does not name the person but refers to them, for example with "he" or "her"; the link comes from the grammatical analysis of the Hebrew or Greek text.
Topics of this verse
No topic is linked to this verse yet.
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Numbering in the versification systems
Bible editions number some verses differently. This verse unit has the following labels (mapping release R8); labels that differ from the one shown above are marked.
Sources that cite this verse
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations: 11 occurrences
- losung.net: Losungen archive: 6 occurrences
- Die Losungen (official yearly files): 1 occurrence
- YouVersion Verse of the Day Archive: 1 occurrence
Occurrences
19 approved public occurrences in the profile official@2, newest first.
- Date
- Dec 7, 2025
- Cited as
- Johannes 16,20
- Source
- Die Losungen (official yearly files), Die Losungen 2025 (Jahresdatei der Evangelischen Brüder-Unität)
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2025-12-07 (2. Sonntag im Advent)
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Translation
- Lutherbibel 2017
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Apr 19, 2025
- Cited as
- John 16:20
- Source
- YouVersion Verse of the Day Archive, YouVersion Verse of the Day
- Usage
- Citation
- Language
- English
- Contributed by
- contributor-3fbt58hvk54z
- Date
- Jul 16, 2023
- Cited as
- Johannes 16,20
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Sonntag, 16. Juli 2023
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2023-07-16
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Aug 7, 2022
- Cited as
- Johannes 16,20
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Sonntag, 7. August 2022
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2022-08-07
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Apr 8, 2020
- Cited as
- Johannes 16,20
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Mittwoch, 8. April 2020
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2020-04-08
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Nov 19, 2018
- Cited as
- Johannes 16,20
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Montag, 19. November 2018
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2018-11-19
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Mar 8, 2017
- Cited as
- Johannes 16,20
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Mittwoch, 8. März 2017
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2017-03-08
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Feb 18, 2002
- Cited as
- Johannes 16,20
- Source
- losung.net: Losungen archive, losung.net: Montag, 18. Februar 2002
- Usage
- Citation
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Moravian Church
- Event
- Die Losungen, 2002-02-18
- Language
- German
- Organization
- Evangelische Brüder-Unität – Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 1221 – Dec 31, 1274
- Cited as
- John 16:20
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Commentary on John, Chapter
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Bonaventure
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Catholic
- Language
- Latin
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 1225 – Dec 31, 1274
- Cited as
- John 16:20
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Commentary on John
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Thomas Aquinas
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Catholic
- Language
- Latin
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 1055 – Dec 31, 1126
- Cited as
- John 16:20
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Commentary on John
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Theophylact of Ohrid
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Eastern Orthodox
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 667 – Dec 31, 735
- Cited as
- John 16:20
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Homilies on the Gospels
- Usage
- Teaching
- Author
- Bede
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Catholic
- Language
- Latin
- Venue
- England
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 376 – Dec 31, 444
- Cited as
- John 16:20
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Cyril of Alexandria
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 354 – Dec 31, 430
- Cited as
- John 16:20
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Tractates on John
- Usage
- Teaching
- Author
- Augustine of Hippo
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Latin
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 354 – Dec 31, 430
- Cited as
- John 16:16-22
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Catena Aurea by Aquinas
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Augustine of Hippo
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Latin
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 344 – Dec 31, 407
- Cited as
- John 16:20
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Homily on the Gospel of John
- Usage
- Teaching
- Author
- John Chrysostom
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Cited as
- John 16:20
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, A Commentary on the Beginning of Ecclesiastes
- Usage
- Analysis
- Author
- Dionysius of Alexandria
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Ancient Greek (to 1453)
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 195 – Dec 31, 258
- Cited as
- John 16:20
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Treatise XI. Exhortation to Martyrdom, Addressed to Fortunatus.
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Cyprian
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Latin
- Contributed by
- import-agent
- Date
- Jan 1, 195 – Dec 31, 258
- Cited as
- John 16:20
- Source
- Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, Treatise VII On the Mortality
- Usage
- Citation
- Author
- Cyprian
- Denomination of the source or organisation
- Early Church
- Language
- Latin
- Contributed by
- import-agent
How this was computed: rule CR-BASE@1 / CR-EXPLICIT-VERSE@1, profile official@2, epoch 113
- Metric
- Verse-level uses: every citation adds one for each verse it covers, under the counting rule. A citation of three verses adds 3. (definition)
- Counting rule
- The baseline rule: every mention of every verse counts; a chapter or a range counts once for each verse it covers, and an unknown repetition counts as one. (definition) – verse-level uses; references to a whole chapter count for each of its verses
Like the baseline rule, but only references that name verses count; whole chapters and books are left out. The Top 100 verses use it, so a chapter reference does not lift every verse of the chapter. (definition) – explicit citations (owner decision P5); the basis of the Top 100 and of the rank - Profile
- The official profile of every public number: only reviewed and approved entries whose evidence quality is high enough. (definition) – reviewed and approved data only
- Epoch
- 113, published Nov 6, 2026, 11:30 AM UTC (provisional)
- Sequence
prot66.nrf, mapping release R8- Rank
- As in the Top 100: explicit citations, highest first, over the verses with at least one; tied verses share a rank.
- Occurrences
- Approved public occurrences of the profile shown, with at least one passage on these verses. The list follows the current approved data; the numbers are those of the epoch.
Live numbers are recomputed every 15 minutes and are provisional until a data release is frozen. This page shows no Bible text. How we count