In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me.” 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’?” They kept asking, “Why is He saying, ‘a little while’? We do not understand what He is saying.” 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’?
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”
Significance
Harks back to previous instances (13:33; 7:33; 12:35; 14:19). OT prophets use similar terms for God's judgment/salvation. "Then after a little while" reminiscent of Isaiah 26:20 (also reference to Isaiah 26:17 in John 16:21). Context plainly: brief period between crucifixion and resurrection (first "little while"), then resurrection appearances (second "little while"). Rightly Carson; cf. Morris; Burge.
Found via
G.K. Beale & D.A. Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Reference Type
Echo
Connection Method(s)
Redemptive-Historical Progression
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