John 8:21

therefore Jesus said again to them, “I go away, and you will seek Me, and you will die in your sin; to where I go away, you are not able to come.”

Literal Standard Version

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 sayings in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come;

22The Jews, therefore, said, “Will He kill Himself, because He says, To where I go away, you are not able to come?”

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Cross References

1 Kings 18:10Your God YHWH lives, if there is a nation and kingdom to where my lord has not sent to seek [for] you; and they said, He is not, then he caused the kingdom and the nation to swear, that it does not find you;

Job 20:11His bones have been full of his youth, and it lies down with him on the dust.

Proverbs 11:7In the death of a wicked man, hope perishes, || And the expectation of the iniquitous has been lost.

Isaiah 65:20There is not a suckling of [mere] days there anymore, || And an aged man who does not complete his days, || For the youth dies one hundred years old, || And the sinner, one hundred years old, is lightly esteemed.

Matthew 23:39for I say to you, you may not see Me from now on, until you may say, Blessed [is] He who is coming in the Name of the LORD.”

Matthew 25:41Then will He say also to those on the left hand, Go from Me, the cursed, into the continuous fire that has been prepared for the Devil and his messengers;

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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