John 7:34

You will look for me, and you will not find me; and you will not be able to come where I will be.”

Open English Bible (US)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

33at which Jesus said, “I will be with you but a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.

35“Where is this man going,” the people asked one another, “that we would not find him? Will he go to our countrymen abroad, and teach foreigners?

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Cross References

Hosea 5:6With their sheep and their cattle they will go to seek the Lord but they will not find him, he has withdrawn from them,

Luke 13:24“Strive to go in by the narrow door. Many, I tell you, will seek to go in, but they will not be able,

Luke 17:22The day will come,” he said to his disciples, “when you will long to see but one of the days of the Son of Man, and will not see it.

John 13:33My children, I am to be with you but a little while longer. You will look for me; and what I said to the people – ‘You cannot come where I am going’ – I now say to you.

John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one ever 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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