John 7:36
Good News Translation
He says that we will look for him but will not find him, and that we cannot go where he will be. What does he mean?"

New Revised Standard Version
What does he mean by saying, ‘You will search for me and you will not find me’ and ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”

Contemporary English Version
What did he mean by saying that we will look for him, but won't find him? Why can't we go where he is going?"

New American Bible
What is the meaning of his saying, ‘You will look for me and not find [me], and where I am you cannot come’?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
What is this saying that he hath said: You shall seek me and shall not find me? And: Where I am, you cannot come?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

What is this saying that he hath said: You shall seek me and shall not find me? And: Where I am, you cannot come?

manner.

John 3:4,9 Nicodemus saith to him: How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born again? . . .

John 6:41,52,60 The Jews therefore murmured at him, because he had said: I am the living bread which came down from heaven. . . .

John 12:34 The multitude answered him: We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever. And how sayest thou: The Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?

John 16:17,18 Then some of his disciples said one to another: What is this that he saith to us: A little while, and you shall not see me: and again a little while, and you shall see me, and, Because I go to the Father? . . .

Ye shall.

John 7:34 You shall seek me and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come.

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him: and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined.

Context
Is Jesus the Christ?
35The Jews therefore said among themselves: Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? Will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles and teach the Gentiles? 36What is this saying that he hath said: You shall seek me and shall not find me? And: Where I am, you cannot come? 37And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink.…
Cross References
John 7:34
You shall seek me and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come.

John 8:21
Again therefore Jesus said to them: I go: and you shall seek me. And you shall die in your sin. Whither I go, you cannot come.

John 13:33
Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall seek me. And as I said to the Jews: Whither I go you cannot come; so I say to you now.

John 7:35
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