John 16:17-19

New Catholic Bible

¹⁷ Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying to us, ‘In a little while you will no longer see me, and then a short time later you will see me again,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’? ¹⁸ What is this ‘little while’? We do not know what he means.”

¹⁹ Jesus knew that they wanted to question him, so he said to them,