John 16:18
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New International Version (©1984)
They kept asking, "What does he mean by 'a little while'? We don't understand what he is saying."

New Living Translation (©2007)
And what does he mean by 'a little while'? We don't understand."

English Standard Version (©2001)
So they were saying, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We do not know what he is talking about.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So they were saying, "What is this that He says, 'A little while '? We do not know what He is talking about."

International Standard Version (©2008)
They kept saying, "What is this 'in a little while' that he keeps talking about? We don't know what he means."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So they were asking each other, "What does he mean when he says, 'In a little while'? We don't understand what he's talking about."

King James Bible
They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.

American King James Version
They said therefore, What is this that he said, A little while? we cannot tell what he said.

American Standard Version
They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? We know not what he saith.

Bible in Basic English
So they said again and again, What is this he is saying, A little time? His words are not clear to us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They said therefore: What is this that he saith, A little while? we know not what he speaketh.

Darby Bible Translation
They said therefore, What is this which he says of the little while? We do not know of what he speaks.

English Revised Version
They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? We know not what he saith.

Webster's Bible Translation
They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.

Weymouth New Testament
So they asked one another repeatedly, "What can that 'little while' mean which He speaks of? We do not understand His words."

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

Young's Literal Translation
they said then, 'What is this he saith -- the little while? we have not known what he saith.'

Geneva Study Bible

They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.

People's New Testament

16:16,17 A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me. On the morrow he would die, be buried, and for a little while they would not see him; then he would rise, and for another little while, a space of forty days before he went to his Father, they would see him while he remained on the earth. When he ascended to his Father, they, in a spiritual sense, would see him coming in the kingdom of God (Mt 16:28).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

16:16-22 It is good to consider how near our seasons of grace are to an end, that we may be quickened to improve them. But the sorrows of the disciples would soon be turned into joy; as those of a mother, at the sight of her infant. The Holy Spirit would be their Comforter, and neither men nor devils, neither sufferings in life nor in death, would ever deprive them of their joy. Believers have joy or sorrow, according to their sight of Christ, and the tokens of his presence. Sorrow is coming on the ungodly, which nothing can lessen; the believer is an heir to joy which no one can take away. Where now is the joy of the murderers of our Lord, and the sorrow of his friends?


John 16:17 Some of His disciples then said to one another, "What is this thing He is telling us, 'A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me'; and, 'because I go to the Father '?"
John 16:19 Jesus knew that they wished to question Him, and He said to them, "Are you deliberating together about this, that I said, 'A little while, and you will not see Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me'? (NASB ©1995)

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They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.

we. Mt 16:9-11 Lu 24:25 Heb 5:12

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