John 16:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

John 16:16

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.

A

John 14:19

A little while

1 Corinthians 15:5

Because

Hebrews 12:2

Bible References

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I did not tell you all this at first, because I was with you. But now I am to return to him who sent me; and yet not one of you asks me--'Where are you going?'

On which Jesus said: "I shall be with you but a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.

"Only a little while longer," answered Jesus, "will you have the Light among you. Travel on while you have the Light, so that darkness may not overtake you; he who travels in the darkness does not know where he is going.

My children, I am to be with you but a little while longer. You will look for me; and what I said to the Jews--'You cannot come where I am going'--I now say to you.

In a little while the world will see me no more, but you will still see me; because I am living, you will be living also.

A little while

In the evening of the same day--the first day of the week-- after the doors of the room, in which the disciples were, had been shut for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said: "Peace be with you";

Later on, Jesus showed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias.

With abundant proofs, he showed himself to them, still living, after his death; appearing to them from time to time during forty days, and speaking of all that related to the Kingdom of God.

This Jesus God raised on the third day, and enabled him to appear,

And that he appeared to Kephas, and then to the Twelve.

Because

I came out from the Father, and have come into the world; and now I am to leave the world, and go to the Father."

And at supper, Jesus--although knowing that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God, and was to return to God--

And now do thou honor me, Father, at thy own side, with the honor which I had at thy side before the world began.

So the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into Heaven, and sat at the right hand of God.

our eyes fixed upon Jesus, the Leader and perfect Example of our faith, who, for the joy that lay before him, endured the cross, heedless of its shame, and now 'has taken his seat at the right hand' of the throne of God.