John 7:34

ye will seek me, and ye shall not find; and where I am, ye are not able to come.'

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

33Jesus, therefore, said to them, 'Yet a little time I am with you, and I go away unto Him who sent me;

35The Jews, therefore, said among themselves, 'Whither is this one about to go that we shall not find him? — to the dispersion of the Greeks is he about to go? and to teach the Greeks;

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Cross References

Hosea 5:6With their flock and with their herd, They go to seek Jehovah, and do not find, He hath withdrawn from them.

Luke 13:24'Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

Luke 17:22And he said unto his disciples, 'Days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and ye shall not behold [it];

John 13:33'Little children, yet a little am I with you; ye will seek me, and, according as I said to the Jews — Whither I go away, ye are not able to come, to you also I do say [it] now.

John 14:6Jesus saith to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not 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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