John 16:16
“A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”
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Mark 16:19So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
John 12:35Jesus 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 13:33Little 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 16:5But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
John 16:17Some 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’?”
John 16:28I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.”
Matthew Henry on John 16:8-16
The Expediency of Christ's Departure; The Promise of the Spirit. 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. 8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me; 10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; 11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. 12 I… Read the whole commentary →