John 16:5

The Passion Translation

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.

Cross References

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 13:36

Peter interjected, “But, Master, where are you going?” Jesus replied, “Where I am going you won’t be able to follow, but one day you will follow me there.”

John 14:28

“Remember what I’ve told you, that I must go away, but I promise to come back to you. So if you truly love me, you will be glad for me, since I’m returning to my Father, who is greater than I.

John 16:10

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

John 16:16

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

John 16:17

Some of the disciples asked each other, “What does he mean, ‘Soon you won’t see me,’ and, ‘A little while after that and you will see me in a new way’? And what does he mean, ‘Because I’m going to my Father’?”

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 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 17:4

I have glorified you on the earth by faithfully doing everything you’ve told me to do.

John 6:62

What will you do when you see the Son of Man ascending into the realm from where he came?

John 7:33

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

Hebrews 1:3

The Son is the dazzling radiance of God’s splendor, the exact expression of God’s true nature—his mirror image! He holds the universe together and expands it by the mighty power of his spoken word. He accomplished for us the complete cleansing of sins, and then took his seat on the highest throne at the right hand of the majestic One.

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!