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OET (OET-LV) A_little time and you_all_are_ no_longer _observing me, and again a_little time and you_all_will_be_seeing me.
OET (OET-RV) “It won’t be much longer and you won’t be able to see me any more, and then a little while after that, and you’ll see me again.”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / pastforfuture
οὐκέτι θεωρεῖτέ με
no_longer ˱you_all˲_/are/_observing me
Here Jesus uses see in the present tense to refer to something that will happen in the near future. If this is confusing in your language, you could use the future tense. Alternate translation: “you will no longer see me”
16:16 Jesus reassured the disciples that his departure (on the cross) would be short and his return (in the resurrection) would be soon. When they saw him again, the disciples would experience overwhelming joy and intimacy with him in the Spirit.
OET (OET-LV) A_little time and you_all_are_ no_longer _observing me, and again a_little time and you_all_will_be_seeing me.
OET (OET-RV) “It won’t be much longer and you won’t be able to see me any more, and then a little while after that, and you’ll see me again.”
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and English gloss (7th line) are all thanks to the SR-GNT.