18They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.
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Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? …
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-22)Our Lord Jesus, for the comfort of his sorrowful disciples, here promises that he would visit them again. I. Observe the intimation he gave them of the comfort he designed them, John 16:16. Here he tells them, 1. That they should now shortly lose the sight of him: A little while, and you that have seen me so long, and still desire to see me, shall not see me ; and therefore, if they had any good q…
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