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  • John 13:33
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 33 Little children, I am with you a little longer. You will look for me; and just as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I go you cannot come,’+ I now say it also to you.

  • John 13:33
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 33 Τεκνία, Little children, ἔτι yet μικρὸν little (while) μεθ’ with ὑμῶν YOU εἰμί· I am; ζητήσετέ YOU will seek με, me, καὶ and καθὼς according as εἶπον I said τοῖς to the Ἰουδαίοις Jews ὅτι that Ὅπου Where ἐγὼ I ὑπάγω am going under ὑμεῖς YOU οὐ not δύνασθε are able ἐλθεῖν, to come, καὶ and ὑμῖν to YOU λέγω I am saying ἄρτι. right now.

  • John 13:33
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 33 Little children,+ I am with YOU a little longer. YOU will look for me; and just as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I go YOU cannot come,’+ I say also to YOU at present.

  • John 13:33
    The Bible in Living English
    • 33 Children, I shall be with you little longer. You will look for me, and as I said to the Jews ‘where I am going you cannot come,’ so I say to you now.

  • John 13:33
    American Standard Version
    • 33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say unto you.

  • John 13:33
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 33 Dear children! Yet a little am I with you. Ye shall seek me, and just as I said unto the Jews Whither I go ye cannot come Unto you also I say it even now.

  • John 13:33
    King James Version
    • 33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.

  • John
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025
    • 13:33 w03 2/1 13

  • John
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 13:33 w53 439

  • John
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 13:33

      The Watchtower,

      2/1/2003, p. 13

  • John Study Notes—Chapter 13
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 13:33

      Little children: In the Gospels, there is no earlier record of Jesus’ addressing his disciples with this affectionate expression. The Greek word here rendered “little children,” te·kniʹon, is the diminutive form of the word teʹknon (child). In the Christian Greek Scriptures, diminutives are often used to indicate affection and familiarity. (See Glossary, “Diminutive.”) This expression could therefore also be rendered “dear children” or “beloved children.” It occurs nine times in the Christian Greek Scriptures and is always used in a figurative sense, referring to disciples.​—Ga 4:19; 1Jo 2:1, 12, 28; 3:7, 18; 4:4; 5:21.

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