John 13:7
Good News Translation
Jesus answered him, "You do not understand now what I am doing, but you will understand later."

New Revised Standard Version
Jesus answered, “You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”

Contemporary English Version
Jesus answered, "You don't really know what I am doing, but later you will understand."

New American Bible
Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing, you do not understand now, but you will understand later.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Jesus answered and said to him: What I do, thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jesus answered and said to him: What I do, thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.

What.

John 13:10-12 Jesus saith to him: He that is washed needeth not but to wash his feet, but is clean wholly. And you are clean, but not all. . . .

John 12:16 These things his disciples did not know at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of him and that they had done these things to him.

John 14:26 But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring all things to your mind, whatsoever I shall have said to you.

Jeremiah 32:24,25,43 Behold works are built up against the city to take it: and the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans, who fight against it, by the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken, is all come to pass, as thou thyself seest. . . .

Daniel 12:8,12 And I heard, and understood not. And I said: O my lord, what shall be after these things? . . .

Habakkuk 2:1-3 I will stand upon my watch, and fix my foot upon the tower: and I will watch, to see what will be said to me, and what I may answer to him that reproveth me. . . .

James 5:7-11 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain. . . .

Context
Jesus Washes His Disciples' Feet
6He cometh therefore to Simon Peter. And Peter saith to him: Lord, dost thou wash my feet? 7Jesus answered and said to him: What I do, thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. 8Peter saith to him: Thou shalt never wash my feet, Jesus answered him: If I wash thee not, thou shalt have no part with me.…
Cross References
John 13:6
He cometh therefore to Simon Peter. And Peter saith to him: Lord, dost thou wash my feet?

John 13:12
Then after he had washed their feet and taken his garments, being set down again, he said to them: Know you what I have done to you?

John 13:6
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