He is anxious to see you all and is very upset because you had heard that he was sick.

But when they told him all that Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to take him to Egypt, he recovered from the shock.

"My son Joseph is still alive!" he said. "This is all I could ask for! I must go and see him before I die."

Joseph got in his chariot and went to Goshen to meet his father. When they met, Joseph threw his arms around his father's neck and cried for a long time.

Jacob said to Joseph, "I am ready to die, now that I have seen you and know that you are still alive."

Jacob said to Joseph, "I never expected to see you again, and now God has even let me see your children."

That is how it is with you: now you are sad, but I will see you again, and your hearts will be filled with gladness, the kind of gladness that no one can take away from you.

They were especially sad because he had said that they would never see him again. And so they went with him to the ship.

I remember your tears, and I want to see you very much, so that I may be filled with joy.

Indeed he was sick and almost died. But God had pity on him, and not only on him but on me, too, and spared me an even greater sorrow.

That is why I wrote that letter to you---I did not want to come to you and be made sad by the very people who should make me glad. For I am convinced that when I am happy, then all of you are happy too.

What we have seen and heard we announce to you also, so that you will join with us in the fellowship that we have with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

We write this in order that our joy may be complete.