John 7:34

"You will search for me and will not find me, and where I am you cannot come."

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

33Then Jesus said to them. "Still for a little longer I am with you, and then I am going my way to him who sent me.

35Then the Jews said to one another. "Where does this fellow intend to go, so that we shall not find him? He is not intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and to teach the Greeks, is he?

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Cross References

Luke 13:24"Struggle to enter in by the narrow door," he answered, "for I tell you that many will try to enter and not be able,

Luke 17:22Then he said turning to his disciples. "The days will come when you shall long to see one of the days of the Son of man, you shall not see it.

John 13:33"My little children, I am only to be with you a little longer. You will seek me; just as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I go you cannot come,’ so now I say to you.

John 14:6Jesus answered him. "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man ever comes to the Father but by 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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