John 16:16 Cross References

John 16:16

16: "In just a little while I will be gone, and you won't see me anymore. Then, just a little while after that, you will see me again."

But Jesus told them, "I will be here a little longer. Then I will return to the one who sent me.

You have sorrow now, but I will see you again; then you will rejoice, and no one can rob you of that joy.

Yes, I came from the Father into the world, and I will leave the world and return to the Father."

No, I will not abandon you as orphans--I will come to you.
In just a little while the world will not see me again, but you will. For I will live again, and you will, too.
When I am raised to life again, you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
Those who obey my commandments are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will love them, and I will love them. And I will reveal myself to each one of them."
Judas (not Judas Iscariot, but the other disciple with that name) said to him, "Lord, why are you going to reveal yourself only to us and not to the world at large?"

but God raised him to life three days later. Then God allowed him to appear,
not to the general public, but to us whom God had chosen beforehand to be his witnesses. We were those who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

During the forty days after his crucifixion, he appeared to the apostles from time to time and proved to them in many ways that he was actually alive. On these occasions he talked to them about the Kingdom of God.

When the Lord Jesus had finished talking with them, he was taken up into heaven and sat down in the place of honor at God's right hand.

Jesus knew that the Father had given him authority over everything and that he had come from God and would return to God.

Dear children, how brief are these moments before I must go away and leave you! Then, though you search for me, you cannot come to me--just as I told the Jewish leaders.

Jesus replied, "My light will shine out for you just a little while longer. Walk in it while you can, so you will not stumble when the darkness falls. If you walk in the darkness, you cannot see where you are going.

The disciples asked each other, "What does he mean when he says, 'You won't see me, and then you will see me'? And what does he mean when he says, 'I am going to the Father'?
And what does he mean by 'a little while'? We don't understand."
Jesus realized they wanted to ask him, so he said, "Are you asking yourselves what I meant? I said in just a little while I will be gone, and you won't see me anymore. Then, just a little while after that, you will see me again.

We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from start to finish. He was willing to die a shameful death on the cross because of the joy he knew would be his afterward. Now he is seated in the place of highest honor beside God's throne in heaven.

That evening, on the first day of the week, the disciples were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly, Jesus was standing there among them! "Peace be with you," he said.
As he spoke, he held out his hands for them to see, and he showed them his side. They were filled with joy when they saw their Lord!
He spoke to them again and said, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you."
Then he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.
If you forgive anyone's sins, they are forgiven. If you refuse to forgive them, they are unforgiven."

"And now I am coming to you. I have told them many things while I was with them so they would be filled with my joy.

Righteousness is available because I go to the Father, and you will see me no more.

Later Jesus appeared again to the disciples beside the Sea of Galilee. This is how it happened.
Several of the disciples were there--Simon Peter, Thomas (nicknamed the Twin ), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples.
Simon Peter said, "I'm going fishing.We'll come, too," they all said. So they went out in the boat, but they caught nothing all night.
At dawn the disciples saw Jesus standing on the beach, but they couldn't see who he was.
He called out, "Friends, have you caught any fish?No," they replied.

"But now I am going away to the one who sent me, and none of you has asked me where I am going.

He was seen by Peter and then by the twelve apostles.
After that, he was seen by more than five hundred of his followers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died by now.
Then he was seen by James and later by all the apostles.
Last of all, I saw him, too, long after the others, as though I had been born at the wrong time.
For I am the least of all the apostles, and I am not worthy to be called an apostle after the way I persecuted the church of God.

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