John 7:34

You'll search for me but you won't find me; and you can't come where I'm going.”

Free Bible Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

33Then Jesus told the people, “I'll be with you just a little longer, but then I'll return to the one who sent me.

35The Jews said to each other, “Where could he be going that we couldn't find him? Is he planning to go to those scattered among the foreigners, and teach the foreigners?

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Cross References

Hosea 5:6They will go to seek the Lord with their herds and flocks, but they will not find him, for he has given up on them.

Luke 13:24“Try very hard to enter the narrow doorway, because I tell you that many will try to go in, and won't succeed.

Luke 17:22Then Jesus told the disciples, “The time is coming when you'll long to see the day when the Son of man comes, but you won't see it.

John 13:33My children, I will be with you only a little while longer. You will look for me, but I'm telling you now just as I told the Jews: you cannot come where I'm going.

John 14:6Jesus replied, “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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