New American Standard Bible 2020
John 16:18
18So they were saying, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not know what He is talking about.”
John 16:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.
- New International Version (NIV)They kept asking, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We don’t understand what he is saying.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)So they were saying, "What does he mean by 'a little while'? We do not know what he is talking about."
- New King James Version (NKJV)They said therefore, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not know what He is saying.”
Context of John 16:18
16“A little while, and you no longer are going to see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me.” 17So some of His disciples said to one another, “What is this that He is telling us, ‘A little while, and you are not going to see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’; and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?” So they were saying, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not know what He is talking about.” 19Jesus knew that they wanted to question Him, and He said to them, “Are you deliberating together about this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you are not going to see Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me’? 20Truly, truly I say to you that you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but your grief will be turned into joy!
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ἔλεγον οὖν· τί ἐστιν τοῦτο ὃ λέγει τὸ μικρόν; οὐκ οἴδαμεν τί λαλεῖ.¶Read the interlinear
Cross-references for John 16:18
- Matthew 16:9Do you not yet understand nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets you picked up?
- Luke 24:25And then He said to them, “You foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
- Hebrews 5:12For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the actual words of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
Commentaries on John 16:18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18What is this that he saith - They knew from what he had said that he was to die, but knew not what he meant by their seeing him again in a little time.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16-22Verses 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…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16-33a little while: Jesus repeated this phrase to comfort his disciples. He wanted them to know that their separation from him would not last long. Although he would soon leave them, he would return to them again.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-2216-22. A little while, and ye shall not see me; and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father--The joy of the world at their not seeing Him seems to show that His removal from them by death was what He meant; and in that case, their joy at again seeing Him points to their transport at His reappearance amongst them on His Resurrection, when they could no longer doubt His identity. At the same time the sorrow of the widowed…Read the comment
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Commentaries on John 16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Catena Aurea
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- John Lightfoot Commentary
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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