John 16:17-19

21st Century King James Version

¹⁷ Then said some of His disciples among themselves, “What is this that He saith unto us, ‘A little while, and ye shall not see Me; and again a little while, and ye shall see Me,’ and, ‘because I go to the Father’?”

¹⁸ They said therefore, “What is this that He saith, ‘A little while’? We cannot tell what He saith.”

¹⁹ Now Jesus knew that they were desirous of asking Him, and said unto them, “Do ye inquire among yourselves of what I said, ‘A little while, and ye shall not see Me; and again a little while, and ye shall see Me’?