Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
Yet a little while, and the world seeth ('beholdeth') me no more; but ye see - `behold' me. His bodily presence being all the sight of Him which the world was capable of, they were to behold Him no more on His departure to the Father: whereas by the coming of the Spirit the presence of Christ was not only continued to His spiritually enlightened disciples, but rendered far more efficacious and blissful than His bodily presence had been before.
Because I live, ye shall live also. He does not say, 'When I shall live, after My resurrection from the dead,' but "Because I do live;" for it is of that inextinguishable divine life which He was even then living that He is speaking-in reference to which His approaching death and resurrection were but as momentary shadows passing over the sun's glorious disc. See Luke 24:5; Revelation 1:18. And this grand saying Jesus uttered with death immediately in view. What a brightness does this throw over the next clause, ye shall live also!