John 7:34

you will seek Me, and you will not find; and where I am, you are not able to come.”

Literal Standard 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

33Jesus, therefore, said to them, “Yet a short time I am with you, and I go away to Him who sent Me;

35The Jews, therefore, said among themselves, “To where is this One about to go that we will not find Him? Is He about to go to the dispersion of the Greeks, and to teach the Greeks?

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Cross References

Hosea 5:6With their flock and with their herd, || They go to seek YHWH, and do not find, || He has withdrawn from them.

Luke 13:24“Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and will not be able;

Luke 17:22And He said to His disciples, “Days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man and you will not behold [it];

John 13:33Little children, yet a little [while] am I with you; you will seek Me, and according as I said to the Jews, I also say to you now: To where I go away, you are not able to come.

John 14:6Jesus says to him, “I AM the way, and the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father, if not 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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