¹⁷ Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying to us, ‘A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again a little while, and you will see me,’ and ‘because I am going to the Father’?”

Sorrow Will Turn into Joy

¹⁶ “A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again a little while, and you will see me.”^(A)

⁵ But now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’^(A)

³² But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him.^(A)

¹⁹ Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Are you discussing among yourselves what I meant when I said, ‘A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’?

⁵ Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”

¹⁶ His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written of him and had been done to him.^(A)

³⁴ But they understood nothing about all these things; in fact, what he said was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what was said.^(A)

¹⁰ So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what this rising from the dead could mean.

16 “I have said these things to you to keep you from falling away.^[a](A)