John 16:17

New English Translation

Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is the meaning of what he is saying, ‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me,’ and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?”

Cross References

Mark 9:10

They kept this statement to themselves, discussing what this rising from the dead meant.

Mark 9:32

But they did not understand this statement and were afraid to ask him.

Luke 18:34

But the twelve understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what Jesus meant.

Luke 9:45

But they did not understand this statement; its meaning had been concealed from them, so that they could not grasp it. Yet they were afraid to ask him about this statement.

John 12:16

(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)

John 14:22

“Lord,” Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

John 14:5

Thomas said, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”

John 16:1

“I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.

John 16:16

In a little while you will see me no longer; again after a little while, you will see me.”

John 16:18

So they kept on repeating, “What is the meaning of what he says, ‘In a little while’? We do not understand what he is talking about.”

John 16:19

Jesus could see that they wanted to ask him about these things, so he said to them, “Are you asking each other about this – that I said, ‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me’?

John 16:5

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