John 16:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

John 16:18 Cross References

Luke 24:25

And he said to them, “O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

John 16:17

Some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and, ‘because I go to the Father’?”

John 16:19

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him; so he said to them, “Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’?

Hebrews 5:12

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need some one to teach you again the first principles of God's word. You need milk, not solid food;