John 16:16-18

J.B. Phillips New Testament

The disciples are puzzled: Jesus explains

¹⁶ “In a little while you will not see me any longer, and again, in a little while you will see me.”

^17-18 At this some of his disciples remarked to each other, “What is this that he tells us now, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again, in a little while you will see me’ and ‘for I am going away to the Father’? What is the ‘little while’ that he talks about?” they were saying. “We simply do not know what he means!”