John 16:17

World English Bible (2000)

Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father?'"

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  • Mark 9:32 : 32 But they didn't understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
  • John 16:5 : 5 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'
  • John 16:16 : 16 A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me."
  • Mark 9:10 : 10 They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the "rising from the dead" meant.
  • John 16:19 : 19 Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?'
  • Luke 9:45 : 45 But they didn't understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
  • Luke 18:34 : 34 They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn't understand the things that were said.
  • John 12:16 : 16 His disciples didn't understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
  • John 14:5 : 5 Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going. How can we know the way?"
  • John 14:22 : 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?"
  • John 16:1 : 1 "These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't be caused to stumble.

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  • John 16:15-16
    2 verses
    93%

    15All things whatever the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine, and will declare it to you.

    16A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me."

  • John 16:18-20
    3 verses
    88%

    18They said therefore, "What is this that he says, 'A little while?' We don't know what he is saying."

    19Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?'

    20Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

  • John 13:33
    83%

    33Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you.

  • John 7:33-36
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    80%

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

    34You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."

    35The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

    36What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come'?"

  • John 14:18-20
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    18I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

    19Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

    20In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

  • John 16:4-7
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    79%

    4But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

    5But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'

    6But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.

    7Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don't go away, the Counselor won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

  • John 16:10
    78%

    10about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won't see me any more;

  • John 14:28-29
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    28You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.

    29Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you may believe.

  • John 16:22
    77%

    22Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

  • John 8:21-22
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    21Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come."

    22The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you can't come?'"

  • John 16:32
    75%

    32Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

  • John 16:28-29
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    75%

    28I came out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father."

    29His disciples said to him, "Behold, now you speak plainly, and speak no figures of speech.

  • John 16:25
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    25I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

  • John 13:36
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    36Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you will follow afterwards."

  • John 14:3-5
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    3If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

    4Where I go, you know, and you know the way."

    5Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going. How can we know the way?"

  • John 11:7-8
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    7Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let's go into Judea again."

    8The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"

  • John 6:62
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    62Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

  • John 6:66-67
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    73%

    66At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

    67Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want to go away, do you?"

  • John 14:25
    73%

    25I have said these things to you, while still living with you.

  • Matt 20:17
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    17As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,

  • John 11:16
    72%

    16Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go also, that we may die with him."

  • John 20:10
    72%

    10So the disciples went away again to their own homes.

  • Luke 17:22
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    22He said to the disciples, "The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

  • John 13:21-22
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    72%

    21When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, "Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me."

    22The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he spoke.

  • John 14:16
    72%

    16I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,--

  • John 12:35
    72%

    35Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.

  • John 14:31
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    31But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

  • John 14:9
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    9Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'

  • John 16:12
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    12"I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now.

  • John 14:22
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    22Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?"

  • Mark 16:7
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    7But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.'"