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’?”
Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him,.... This is a proof of Christ's deity, that he is the omniscient God who knows all things, what is in man, even the secrets of the heart; for he not only knew the whisperings of the disciples, and their inquiries among themselves about the sense of his words, but also their secret desires to ask...
Now you must ask quickly; your season of grace is ending and He withdraws from sight at death and ascension. Yet speedily He returns, in resurrection within forty hours, and through the Spirit's presence thereafter. His farewell is not final.
AI summary
Commenting on John 16:16-22