John 13:33

My friends, to me you are like my own little kids, but I will not be with you much longer. You can’t come with me to the place I am going. You will look for me, but you will not find me. I said that to the Jewish leaders, and now I’m telling you the same thing.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

32And when they see me really great, like that, they will know that God did it, and they will say that he is really great. God is going to do that now.

34Listen, you have to love each other, just as much as I loved you. This is a new thing I’m telling you, and you have to do it.

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Cross References

John 8:21Jesus talked to them again. He said, “I am going away. You will look for me, but you will not find me. You can’t go to the place that I am going to. And after you die, you will still be guilty of all the bad things you did, so God will punish you.”

John 14:4And you know the track to the place where I am going.”

John 16:16Jesus said to his followers, “I will go away soon, and you will not see me. But then after a little while, you will see me again.”

1 John 2:1Listen, my Christian friends. I am like your father, and you are like my kids. I am writing these things to you because I want you to live the right way, and I don’t want you to do anything bad at all. But if any Christian does do something bad, then God our father will not get angry and punish them. You see, Jesus Christ died for us. He never did anything bad at all, but he died to take away all the bad things that we did. He is with God now, and he asks God to help us. So now God will say that we are not guilty. And you know, Jesus didn’t only die for us mob. He died for everybody in the world.

1 John 5:21My Christian friends, don’t follow any other gods, and don’t let anything else be the boss over your life.

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 →

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