John 16:18

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Luke 24:25

And he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are! How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke!

John 16:17

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’?”

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’?

Hebrews 5:12

Although you should be teachers by this time, you need to have someone teach you again the basic elements of the utterances of God. You need milk, [and] not solid food.