John 16:18 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁸ So they said, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not know what He is saying.”

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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

And He said to them, “O thoughtless ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

John 16:17

Therefore some of His taught ones said to one another, “What is this that He says to us, ‘A little while, and you do not see Me, and again a little while, and you shall see Me,’ and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?”

John 16:19

יהושע, therefore, knew that they were wishing to ask Him, and He said to them, “Are you asking one another about what I said, ‘A little while, and you do not see Me, and again a little while, and you shall see Me’?

Hebrews 5:12

For indeed, although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first elements of the Words of Elohim. And you have become such as need milk and not solid food.