John 16:16,17

little while, and ye shall not see me: again,. little while, and ye shall see me.

On the morrow he would die at the ninth hour; that evening he would be buried, and for "a little while," three days and nights, they would not see him; then he would rise, and for another "little while,". space of forty days before "he went to his Father," they would see him, while he remained on the earth. When he ascended to his Father they, in. spiritual sense, would "see him coming in the kingdom of God." This is all very plain to us, but the apostles, to whom it was yet future, could not understand it.