John 16:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So they said again and again, What is this he is saying, A little time? His words are not clear to us.

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  • Matt 16:9-9 : 9 Do you still not see, or keep in mind the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up? 10 Or the seven cakes of bread of the four thousand, and the number of baskets you took up? 11 How is it that you do not see that I was not talking to you about bread, but about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?
  • Luke 24:25 : 25 And he said, O foolish men! how slow you are to give belief to what the prophets have said.
  • Heb 5:12 : 12 And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

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  • 88%

    16 After a little time you will see me no longer; and then again, after a little time, you will see me.

    17 So some of the disciples said one to another, What is this he is saying, After a little time, you will see me no longer; and then again, after a little time, you will see me? and, I am going to the Father?

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    19 Jesus saw that they had a desire to put the question to him, so he said to them, Is this what you are questioning one with another, why I said, After a little time, you will see me no longer; and then again, after a little time, you will see me?

    20 Truly I say to you, You will be weeping and sorrowing, but the world will be glad: you will be sad, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

  • 33 My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer. Then you will be looking for me: and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, Where I am going you may not come.

  • 45 But this saying was not clear to them and its sense was kept secret from them so that they were not able to see it: and they had fear of questioning him about it.

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    29 His disciples said, Now you are talking clearly and not in veiled language.

    30 Now we are certain that you have knowledge of all things and have no need for anyone to put questions to you: through this we have faith that you came from God.

    31 Jesus made answer, Have you faith now?

  • 5 Thomas said, Lord, we have no knowledge of where you are going; how may we have knowledge of the way?

  • 12 I have still much to say to you, but you are not strong enough for it now.

  • 6 In this Jesus was teaching them in the form of a story: but what he said was not clear to them.

  • 7 And they made answer that they had no idea where it came from.

  • 34 But they did not take in the sense of any of these words, and what he said was not clear to them, and their minds were not able to see it.

  • 32 But the saying was not clear to them, and they were in fear of questioning him about it.

  • 27 They did not see that his words were about the Father.

  • John 16:3-5
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    3 They will do these things to you because they have not had knowledge of the Father or of me.

    4 I have said these things to you so that when the time comes, what I have said may come to your mind. I did not say them to you at the first, because then I was still with you.

    5 But now I am going to him who sent me; and not one of you says to me, Where are you going?

  • 21 And he said to them, Is it still not clear to you?

  • John 8:20-22
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    20 Jesus said these words in the place where the offerings were stored, while he was teaching in the Temple: but no man took him because his time was still to come.

    21 Then he said to them again, I am going away and you will be looking for me, but death will overtake you in your sins. It is not possible for you to come where I am going.

    22 So the Jews said, Will he take his life? Is that why he says, Where I go it is not possible for you to come?

  • 36 What is this saying of his, You will be looking for me and will not see me, and where I am you may not come?

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    15 Then Peter said to him, Make the story clear to us.

    16 And he said, Are you, like them, still without wisdom?

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    33 Then Jesus said, I will be with you a little longer and then I go to him who sent me.

    34 You will be looking for me, and you will not see me: and where I am you may not come.

  • 28 Now it was not clear to anyone at table why he said this to him.

  • 35 Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.

  • 36 Simon Peter said to him, Lord, where are you going? Jesus said in answer, Where I am going you may not come with me now, but you will come later.

  • 11 Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.

  • 25 All this I have said to you in veiled language: but the time is coming when I will no longer say things in veiled language but will give you knowledge of the Father clearly.

  • 27 And they made answer and said, We have no idea. Then he said to them, And I will not say to you by what authority I do these things.

  • 7 And Jesus, answering, said to him, What I do is not clear to you now, but it will be clear to you in time to come.

  • 50 And his words seemed strange to them.

  • 22 Then the eyes of the disciples were turned on one another, in doubt as to whom he had in mind.

  • 19 A little time longer, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me; and you will be living because I am living.

  • 13 And he said to them, If you are not clear about this story, how will you be clear about the others?

  • 16 But their eyes were not open that they might have knowledge of him.

  • 21 Why are you questioning me? put questions to my hearers about what I have said to them: they have knowledge of what I said.

  • 33 And they said in answer to Jesus, We have no idea. And Jesus said to them, And I will not say to you by what authority I do these things.

  • 60 Then, hearing this, a number of his disciples said, This is a hard saying; who is able to take in such teaching?

  • 62 What then will you say if you see the Son of man going up to where he was before?

  • 9 And his disciples put questions to him about the point of the story.

  • 16 And they said to one another, We have no bread.

  • 29 We are certain that God gave his word to Moses: but as for this man, we have no knowledge where he comes from.

  • 21 But how it is he is now able to see, or who made his eyes open, we are not able to say: put the question to him; he is old enough to give an answer for himself.

  • 8 The disciples said to him, Master, the Jews were attempting only the other day to have you stoned, and are you going back there again?

  • 43 Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.