So some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?”
“A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me.”
But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’?
Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him.
But they understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what was said.
So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what this rising from the dead might mean.
“I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away.
Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?”
But they did not understand this saying, and it was concealed from them, so that they might not perceive it. And they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
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