John 16:18

English Standard Version 2016

So they were saying, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We do not know what he is talking about.”

Cross References

Luke 24:25

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

Hebrews 5:12

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

John 16:17

So 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 am going 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’?