John 13:36
Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you can’t follow now, but you will follow afterwards.”
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In Context
35By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
37Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
Cross References
John 14:2In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
John 16:17Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?”
John 21:21Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”
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 →