John 8:21

Therefore, Jesus again spoke to them: “I am going, and you shall seek me. And you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you are not able to go.”

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In The King James Version

Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.

In Context

20Jesus spoke these words at the treasury, while teaching in the temple. And no one apprehended him, because his hour had not yet come.

22And so the Jews said, “Is he going to kill himself, for he said: ‘Where I am going, you are not able to go?’”

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Cross References

1 Kings 18:10As the Lord your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom to which my lord has not sent, seeking you. And when all responded, ‘He is not here,’ he swore each kingdom and nation to an oath, because you were not found at all.

Job 20:11His bones will be filled with the vices of his youth, and they will sleep with him in the dust.

Proverbs 11:7When the impious man is dead, there will no longer be any hope. And the expectation of the anxious will perish.

Isaiah 65:20There will no longer be an infant of only a few days there, nor an elder who does not complete his days. For a mere child dies at a hundred years of age, and a sinner of a hundred years will be accursed.

Matthew 23:39For I say to you, you shall not see me again, until you say: ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

Matthew 25:41Then he shall also say, to those who will be on his left: ‘Depart from me, you accursed ones, into the eternal fire, which was prepared for the devil and his angels.

Matthew Henry on John 8:13-21

Christ's Discourse with the Pharisees. 12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. 13 The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true. 14 Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go. 15 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge… Read the whole commentary →

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