John 7:33

Jesus kept on teaching the people. He said, “I will only be with you for a little bit longer. Then I will go back to the one that sent me here.

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.

In Context

32The Pharisee mob, that were strong for the Jewish law, and the bosses of the Jewish ceremonies, they heard what the people were saying, so they told some of their work-men to go and grab Jesus. But after the work-men got there, they listened to him too.

34You will look for me, but you will not find me. And you can’t come to the place that I am going to.”

Read all of John 7

Cross References

John 12:35Jesus said, “I am like a light shining for you. You see, I am telling you the true message. But I will only be here with you a little bit longer. So while I am here, you have to listen to my message and believe it. It’s like the light is shining and people have to walk about while there is light, because people that walk in the dark don’t know where they are going. So if you don’t listen properly to my message while I am here, then you will not know the right way to live, and it will be like you are always in the dark.

John 13:3and Jesus knew that God gave him power over everything so that he can do anything. And he knew that he came from God and that he was going back to God again soon.

John 14:19The people that belong to this world will not see me any more, but you will see me again soon. Yes, I will be alive, so you will live too.

John 16:10And I am going back to the father, and you will not see me any more. I will not be here, so the Holy Spirit will show people the right way to live.

John 16:28Yes, I came from my father, and I came into the world. But now I am going to leave the world and go back to my father.”

John 17:13Father, I am coming to you soon, but I am saying these things now, while I am still here in the world, so that my followers can be properly happy inside themselves, just like I am.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study John 7:33