John 16:17

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 go to the Father’?”

Cross References

John 16:16

“A little while, and you will see me no more; again a little while, and you will see me.”

John 16:5

But now I am going to him who sent me; yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

Mark 9:32

But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to ask him.

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’?

John 14:5

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

John 12:16

His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that this had been written of him and had been done to him.

Luke 18:34

But they understood none of these things; this saying was hid from them, and they did not grasp what was said.

Mark 9:10

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

John 16:1

“I have said all this to you to keep you from falling away.

John 14:22

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?”

Luke 9:45

But they did not understand this saying, and it was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

John 16:18

They said, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We do not know what he means.”