John 16:17

New American Bible - revised edition

So some of his disciples said to one another, “What does this mean that he is saying 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’?”

Cross References

Mark 9:10

So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what rising from the dead meant.

Mark 9:32

But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to question him. The Greatest in the Kingdom.

Luke 18:34

But they understood nothing of this; the word remained hidden from them and they failed to comprehend what he said. The Healing of the Blind Beggar.

Luke 9:45

But they did not understand this saying; its meaning was hidden from them so that they should not understand it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying. The Greatest in the Kingdom.

John 12:16

His disciples did not understand this at first, but when Jesus had been glorified they remembered that these things were written about him and that they had done this for him.

John 14:22

Judas, not the Iscariot, said to him, “Master, [then] what happened that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

John 14:5

Thomas said to him, “Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?”

John 16:1

“I have told you this so that you may not fall away.

John 16:16

“A little while and you will no longer see me, and again a little while later and you will see me.”

John 16:18

So they said, “What is this ‘little while’ [of which he speaks]? We do not know what he means.”

John 16:19

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Are you discussing with one another what I said, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’?

John 16:5

But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’