Cross references

John 16:17

Then some of His disciples asked one another, “Why is He telling us, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”

John 16:17 BSB

John 16:17 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to John 16:16 (7 votes) and Mark 9:32 (6 votes). 17 other verses point back to it. It links with 3 other books, from Matthew 13 to John 16.

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Which verses does John 16:17 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. John 16:167 votes

    In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me.”

  2. Mark 9:326 votes

    But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.

  3. John 16:56 votes

    Now, however, I am going to Him who sent Me; yet none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’

  4. John 14:54 votes

    “Lord,” said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?”

  5. John 16:194 votes

    Aware that they wanted to question Him, Jesus said to them, “Are you asking one another why I said, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’?

  6. Mark 9:103 votes

    So they kept this matter to themselves, discussing what it meant to rise from the dead.

  7. Luke 18:343 votes

    But the disciples did not understand any of these things. The meaning was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend what He was saying.

  8. John 12:163 votes

    At first His disciples did not understand these things, but after Jesus was glorified they remembered what had been done to Him, and they realized that these very things had also been written about Him.

  9. Luke 9:452 votes

    But they did not understand this statement. It was veiled from them so that they could not comprehend it, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.

  10. John 14:222 votes

    Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”

  11. John 16:12 votes

    “I have told you these things so that you will not fall away.

Which verses point to John 16:17?

The 10 strongest of 17.