John 13:36
Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, where are You going?” Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow Me now, but later you will follow Me.”
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
37Peter said to Him, “Lord, why can I not follow You now? I will lay down my life for You.”
Cross References
John 14:2In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
John 16:17Then some of His disciples said to one another, “What is this that He says to us, ‘A little while and you will not see Me; and again a little while and you will see Me’; and, ‘I am going to the Father’?”
John 21:21Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, “But Lord, what about this man?”
Matthew Henry on John 13:32-36
Christ's Departure Predicted. 31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him. 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. 34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By… Read the whole commentary →