John 16:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ They said, “What does he mean by this ‘a little while’? We do not know what he is talking about.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ What does He mean by a little while? We do not know or understand what He is talking about.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? We know not what he saith.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ What does he mean by ‘soon’? We don’t understand what he’s talking about.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And they said: "What is this, that he is saying, 'A little while?' We do not understand what he is saying."

John 16:18 Cross References

Luke 24:25

Then he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have declared!

Hebrews 5:12

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic elements of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,

John 16:17

Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying to us, ‘A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again a little while, and you will see me,’ and ‘because I am going to the Father’?”

John 16:19

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Are you discussing among yourselves what I meant when I said, ‘A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’?