John 7:34

You shall seek me, and you will not find me. And where I am, you are not able to go.”

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In The King James Version

Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.

In Context

33Therefore, Jesus said to them: “For a brief time, I am still with you, and then I am going to him who sent me.

35And so the Jews said among themselves: “Where is this place to which he will go, such that we will not find him? Will he go to those dispersed among the Gentiles and teach the Gentiles?

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Cross References

Hosea 5:6With their flocks and their herds, they will go to seek the Lord, and they will not find him. He has taken himself away from them.

Luke 13:24“Strive to enter through the narrow gate. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and not be able.

Luke 17:22And he said to his disciples: “The time will come when you will desire to see one day of the Son of man, and you will not see it.

John 13:33Little sons, for a brief while, I am with you. You shall seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you are not able to go,’ so also I say to you now.

John 14:6Jesus said to him: “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Matthew Henry on John 7:15-37

Christ at the Feast of Tabernacles. 14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. 15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? 16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. 18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and… Read the whole commentary →

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