John 16:17

16:17 Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is the meaning of what he is saying, ¹  ‘In a little while you ²  will not see me; again after a little while, you ³  will see me,’ and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?” ⁴ 

John 17:11

17:11 I ⁵  am no longer in the world, but ⁶  they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe ⁷  in your name ⁸  that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. ⁹ 

[16:17]  ¹ tn Grk “What is this that he is saying to us.”

[16:17]  ² tn Grk “A little while, and you.”

[16:17]  ³ tn Grk “and again a little while, and you.”

[16:17]  ⁴ sn These fragmentary quotations of Jesus’ statements are from 16:16 and 16:10, and indicate that the disciples heard only part of what Jesus had to say to them on this occasion.

[17:11]  ⁵ tn Grk And I.” The conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has not been translated here in keeping with the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences.

[17:11]  ⁶ tn The context indicates that this should be translated as an adversative or contrastive conjunction.

[17:11]  ⁷ tn Or “protect them”; Grk “keep them.”

[17:11]  ⁸ tn Or “by your name.”

[17:11]  ⁹ tn The second repetition of “one” is implied, and is supplied here for clarity.