Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.
But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’
But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”
“A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me.” 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’?” So they were saying, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We do not know what he is talking about.” 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’? Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.
concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer;
Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.
So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
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