John 16:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

a little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go away unto the Father.'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μικρὸν, καὶ οὐ θεωρεῖτέ με: καὶ πάλιν, μικρὸν, καὶ ὄψεσθέ με, ὅτι ἐγὼ ὑπάγω πρὸς τὸν Πατέρα.

Transliteration

Mikron, and not theōreite me: and again, mikron, and opsesthe me, because I hypagō pros the Patera.

Grammar Details

• *Mikron*: adjective, accusative, neuter, singular used adverbially - a little while
• καὶ: conjunction - and
• οὐ: negative particle - not
• *theōreite*: present active indicative, 2nd person plural - you see/behold
• με: personal pronoun, accusative, singular - me
• πάλιν: adverb - again
• *mikron*: adjective, accusative, neuter, singular used adverbially - a little while
• *opsesthe*: future middle indicative, 2nd person plural - you will see
• ὅτι: conjunction - because
• ἐγὼ: personal pronoun, nominative, singular - I
• *hypagō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I go away
• *pros*: preposition with accusative - to
• τὸν: definite article, accusative, masculine, singular - the
• *Patera*: noun, accusative, masculine, singular - Father

Word Meanings

• *Mikron*: a little while/shortly/soon
• *theōreite*: you see/you behold/you perceive
• *opsesthe*: you will see/you will perceive (different verb than *theōreite*, possibly implying a different kind of seeing)
• *hypagō*: I go away/I depart/I go
• *pros*: to/toward/with
• *Patera*: Father

Referenced Verses

• John 7:33 : 33 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time I am with you, and I go away unto Him who sent me;
• John 16:17-19 : 17 Therefore said `some' of his disciples one to another, `What is this that he saith to us, A little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, and, Because I go away unto the Father?' 18 they said then, `What is this he saith -- the little while? we have not known what he saith.' 19 Jesus, therefore, knew that they were wishing to ask him, and he said to them, `Concerning this do ye seek one with another, because I said, A little while, and you do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me?
• John 16:22 : 22 `And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you,
• John 16:28 : 28 I came forth from the Father, and have come to the world; again I leave the world, and go on unto the Father.'
• John 17:5 : 5 `And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;
• John 17:13 : 13 `And now unto Thee I come, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves;
• John 20:19-29 : 19 It being, therefore, evening, on that day, the first of the sabbaths, and the doors having been shut where the disciples were assembled, through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith to them, `Peace to you;' 20 and this having said, he shewed them his hands and side; the disciples, therefore, rejoiced, having seen the Lord. 21 Jesus, therefore, said to them again, `Peace to you; according as the Father hath sent me, I also send you;' 22 and this having said, he breathed on `them', and saith to them, `Receive the Holy Spirit; 23 if of any ye may loose the sins, they are loosed to them; if of any ye may retain, they have been retained.' 24 And Thomas, one of the twelve, who is called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came; 25 the other disciples, therefore, said to him, `We have seen the Lord;' and he said to them, `If I may not see in his hands the mark of the nails, and may put my finger to the mark of the nails, and may put my hand to his side, I will not believe.' 26 And after eight days, again were his disciples within, and Thomas with them; Jesus cometh, the doors having been shut, and he stood in the midst, and said, `Peace to you!' 27 then he saith to Thomas, `Bring thy finger hither, and see my hands, and bring thy hand, and put `it' to my side, and become not unbelieving, but believing.' 28 And Thomas answered and said to him, `My Lord and my God;' 29 Jesus saith to him, `Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed; happy those not having seen, and having believed.'
• John 21:1-9 : 1 After these things did Jesus manifest himself again to the disciples on the sea of Tiberias, and he did manifest himself thus: 2 There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas who is called Didymus, and Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, and the `sons' of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples. 3 Simon Peter saith to them, `I go away to fish;' they say to him, `We go -- we also -- with thee;' they went forth and entered into the boat immediately, and on that night they caught nothing. 4 And morning being now come, Jesus stood at the shore, yet indeed the disciples did not know that it is Jesus; 5 Jesus, therefore, saith to them, `Lads, have ye any meat?' 6 they answered him, `No;' and he said to them, `Cast the net at the right side of the boat, and ye shall find;' they cast, therefore, and no longer were they able to draw it, from the multitude of the fishes. 7 That disciple, therefore, whom Jesus was loving saith to Peter, `The Lord it is!' Simon Peter, therefore, having heard that it is the Lord, did gird on the outer coat, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea; 8 and the other disciples came by the little boat, for they were not far from the land, but as it were about two hundred cubits off, dragging the net of the fishes; 9 when, therefore, they came to the land, they behold a fire of coals lying, and a fish lying on it, and bread. 10 Jesus saith to them, `Bring ye from the fishes that ye caught now;' 11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net up on the land, full of great fishes, an hundred fifty and three, and though they were so many, the net was not rent. 12 Jesus saith to them, `Come ye, dine;' and none of the disciples was venturing to inquire of him, `Who art thou?' knowing that it is the Lord; 13 Jesus, therefore, doth come and take the bread and give to them, and the fish in like manner; 14 this `is' now a third time Jesus was manifested to his disciples, having been raised from the dead. 15 When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, `Simon, `son' of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, `Feed my lambs.' 16 He saith to him again, a second time, `Simon, `son' of Jonas, dost thou love me?' he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, `Tend my sheep.' 17 He saith to him the third time, `Simon, `son' of Jonas, dost thou dearly love me?' Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, `Dost thou dearly love me?' and he said to him, `Lord, thou hast known all things; thou dost know that I dearly love thee.' Jesus saith to him, `Feed my sheep; 18 verily, verily, I say to thee, When thou wast younger, thou wast girding thyself and wast walking whither thou didst will, but when thou mayest be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another will gird thee, and shall carry `thee' whither thou dost not will;' 19 and this he said, signifying by what death he shall glorify God; and having said this, he saith to him, `Be following me.' 20 And Peter having turned about doth see the disciple whom Jesus was loving following, (who also reclined in the supper on his breast, and said, `Sir, who is he who is delivering thee up?') 21 Peter having seen this one, saith to Jesus, `Lord, and what of this one?' 22 Jesus saith to him, `If him I will to remain till I come, what -- to thee? be thou following me.' This word, therefore, went forth to the brethren that that disciple doth not die, 23 yet Jesus did not say to him, that he doth not die, but, `If him I will to remain till I come, what -- to thee?'
• Acts 1:3 : 3 to whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God.
• Acts 10:40-41 : 40 `This one God did raise up the third day, and gave him to become manifest, 41 not to all the people, but to witnesses, to those having been chosen before by God -- to us who did eat with `him', and did drink with him, after his rising out of the dead;
• 1 Cor 15:5-9 : 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve, 6 afterwards he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain till now, and certain also did fall asleep; 7 afterwards he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 And last of all -- as to the untimely birth -- he appeared also to me, 9 for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I did persecute the assembly of God,
• Heb 12:2 : 2 looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;
• John 12:35 : 35 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;
• John 13:3 : 3 Jesus knowing that all things the Father hath given to him -- into `his' hands, and that from God he came forth, and unto God he goeth,
• John 13:33 : 33 `Little children, yet a little am I with you; ye will seek me, and, according as I said to the Jews -- Whither I go away, ye are not able to come, to you also I do say `it' now.
• John 14:18-24 : 18 `I will not leave you bereaved, I come unto you; 19 yet a little, and the world doth no more behold me, and ye behold me, because I live, and ye shall live; 20 in that day ye shall know that I `am' in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you; 21 he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.' 22 Judas saith to him, (not the Iscariot), `Sir, what hath come to pass, that to us thou are about to manifest thyself, and not to the world?' 23 Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make; 24 he who is not loving me, my words doth not keep; and the word that ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.
• John 16:5 : 5 and now I go away to Him who sent me, and none of you doth ask me, Whither dost thou go?
• John 16:10 : 10 and concerning righteousness, because unto my Father I go away, and no more do ye behold me;
• Mark 16:19 : 19 The Lord, then, indeed, after speaking to them, was received up to the heaven, and sat on the right hand of God;