John 16:16

The Passion Translation

Soon you won’t see me any longer, but then, after a little while, you will see me in a new way.”

Cross References

Mark 16:19

After saying these things, Jesus was lifted up into heaven and sat down at the place of honor at the right hand of God!

John 12:35

Jesus replied, “You will have the light shining with you for only a little while longer. While you still have me, walk in the light, so that the darkness doesn’t overtake you. For when you walk in the dark you have no idea where you’re going.

John 13:3

Now Jesus was fully aware that the Father had placed all things under his control, for he had come from God and was about to go back to be with him.

John 13:33

“My dear friends, I only have a brief time left to be with you. And then you will search and long for me. But I tell you what I told the Jewish leaders: you’ll not be able to come where I am.

John 16:10

“God’s ‘righteousness,’ because I’m going back to join the Father and you’ll see me no longer.

John 16:22

“So will you also pass through a time of intense sorrow when I am taken from you, but you will see me again! And then your hearts will burst with joy, with no one being able to take it from you!

John 16:28

I came to you sent from the Father’s presence, and I entered into the created world, and now I will leave this world and return to the Father’s side.”

John 16:5

But now that I’m about to leave you and go back to join the One who sent me, you need to be told. Yet, not one of you are asking me where I’m going.

John 17:13

“But now I am returning to you so Father, I pray that they will experience and enter into my joyous delight in you so that it is fulfilled in them and overflows.

John 17:5

So my Father, restore me back to the glory that we shared together when we were face-to-face before the universe was created.”

John 7:33

Then Jesus said, “My days to be with you are numbered. Then I will return to the One who sent me.

Acts 1:3

After the sufferings of his cross, Jesus appeared alive many times to these same apostles over a forty-day period, proving to them with many convincing signs that he had been resurrected. During these encounters, he taught them the truths of God’s kingdom.

Hebrews 12:2

We look away from the natural realm and we focus our attention and expectation onto Jesus who birthed faith within us and who leads us forward into faith’s perfection. His example is this: Because his heart was focused on the joy of knowing that you would be his, he endured the agony of the cross and conquered its humiliation, and now sits exalted at the right hand of the throne of God!