John 16:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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?'

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  • Mark 9:32 : 32 but they were not understanding the saying, and they were afraid to question him.
  • 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 16:16 : 16 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.'
  • Mark 9:10 : 10 and the thing they kept to themselves, questioning together what the rising out of the dead is.
  • John 16:19 : 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?
  • Luke 9:45 : 45 And they were not knowing this saying, and it was veiled from them, that they might not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
  • Luke 18:34 : 34 And they none of these things understood, and this saying was hid from them, and they were not knowing the things said.
  • John 12:16 : 16 And these things his disciples did not know at the first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were having been written about him, and these things they did to him.
  • John 14:5 : 5 Thomas saith to him, `Sir, we have not known whither thou goest away, and how are we able to know the way?'
  • John 14:22 : 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?'
  • John 16:1 : 1 `These things I have spoken to you, that ye may not be stumbled,

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  • John 16:15-16
    2 verses
    93%

    15`All things, as many as the Father hath, are mine; because of this I said, That of mine He will take, and will tell to you;

    16a 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.'

  • John 16:18-20
    3 verses
    88%

    18they said then, `What is this he saith -- the little while? we have not known what he saith.'

    19Jesus, 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?

    20verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become.

  • John 13:33
    83%

    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 7:33-36
    4 verses
    80%

    33Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time I am with you, and I go away unto Him who sent me;

    34ye will seek me, and ye shall not find; and where I am, ye are not able to come.'

    35The Jews, therefore, said among themselves, `Whither is this one about to go that we shall not find him? -- to the dispersion of the Greeks is he about to go? and to teach the Greeks;

    36what is this word that he said, Ye will seek me, and ye shall not find? and, Where I am, ye are not able to come?'

  • John 14:18-20
    3 verses
    80%

    18`I will not leave you bereaved, I come unto you;

    19yet a little, and the world doth no more behold me, and ye behold me, because I live, and ye shall live;

    20in that day ye shall know that I `am' in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you;

  • John 16:4-7
    4 verses
    79%

    4`But these things I have spoken to you, that when the hour may come, ye may remember them, that I said `them' to you, and these things to you from the beginning I did not say, because I was with you;

    5and now I go away to Him who sent me, and none of you doth ask me, Whither dost thou go?

    6but because these things I have said to you, the sorrow hath filled your heart.

    7`But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you;

  • John 16:10
    78%

    10and concerning righteousness, because unto my Father I go away, and no more do ye behold me;

  • John 14:28-29
    2 verses
    78%

    28ye heard that I said to you -- I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said -- I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

    29`And now I have said `it' to you before it come to pass, that when it may come to pass, ye may believe;

  • John 16:22
    77%

    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 8:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    21therefore said Jesus again to them, `I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.'

    22The Jews, therefore, said, `Will he kill himself, because he saith, Whither I go away, ye are not able to come?'

  • John 16:32
    75%

    32and now it hath come, that ye may be scattered, each to his own things, and me ye may leave alone, and I am not alone, because the Father is with me;

  • John 16:28-29
    2 verses
    75%

    28I came forth from the Father, and have come to the world; again I leave the world, and go on unto the Father.'

    29His disciples say to him, `Lo, now freely thou dost speak, and no similitude speakest thou;

  • John 16:25
    75%

    25`These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.

  • John 13:36
    74%

    36Simon Peter saith to him, `Sir, whither dost thou go away?' Jesus answered him, `Whither I go away, thou art not able now to follow me, but afterward thou shalt follow me.'

  • John 14:3-5
    3 verses
    74%

    3and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be;

    4and whither I go away ye have known, and the way ye have known.'

    5Thomas saith to him, `Sir, we have not known whither thou goest away, and how are we able to know the way?'

  • John 11:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7then after this, he saith to the disciples, `We may go to Judea again;'

    8the disciples say to him, `Rabbi, now were the Jews seeking to stone thee, and again thou dost go thither!'

  • John 6:62
    73%

    62if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before?

  • John 6:66-67
    2 verses
    73%

    66From this `time' many of his disciples went away backward, and were no more walking with him,

    67Jesus, therefore, said to the twelve, `Do ye also wish to go away?'

  • John 14:25
    73%

    25`These things I have spoken to you, remaining with you,

  • Matt 20:17
    73%

    17And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples by themselves in the way, and said to them,

  • John 11:16
    72%

    16therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, `We may go -- we also, that we may die with him,'

  • John 20:10
    72%

    10The disciples therefore went away again unto their own friends,

  • Luke 17:22
    72%

    22And he said unto his disciples, `Days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and ye shall not behold `it';

  • John 13:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21These things having said, Jesus was troubled in the spirit, and did testify, and said, `Verily, verily, I say to you, that one of you will deliver me up;'

    22the disciples were looking, therefore, one at another, doubting concerning whom he speaketh.

  • John 14:16
    72%

    16and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you -- to the age;

  • John 12:35
    72%

    35Jesus, 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 14:31
    72%

    31but that the world may know that I love the Father, and according as the Father gave me command so I do; arise, we may go hence.

  • John 14:9
    72%

    9Jesus saith to him, `So long time am I with you, and thou hast not known me, Philip? he who hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how dost thou say, Shew to us the Father?

  • John 16:12
    72%

    12`I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear `them' now;

  • John 14:22
    71%

    22Judas 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?'

  • Mark 16:7
    71%

    7and go, say to his disciples, and Peter, that he doth go before you to Galilee; there ye shall see him, as he said to you.'