John 7:36

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What does He mean when He said, ‘You will look for Me, but you will not find Me,’ and ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”

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  • John 7:34 : 34 You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.'
  • John 12:34 : 34 The crowd answered Him, "We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. So how can You say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"
  • John 16:17-18 : 17 Then some of his disciples said to one another, 'What does he mean by saying, “A little while and you will no longer see me; and again a little while and you will see me,” and “because I am going to the Father”?' 18 They said, 'What does he mean by “a little while”? We do not know what he is talking about.'
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 But the natural person does not accept the things of God's Spirit, because they are foolishness to him. He cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
  • John 3:4 : 4 Nicodemus said to Him, 'How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb a second time and be born?'
  • John 3:9 : 9 Nicodemus answered and said to Him, 'How can these things happen?
  • John 6:41 : 41 At this, the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, 'I am the bread that came down from heaven.'
  • John 6:52 : 52 Then the Jews argued sharply among themselves, 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?'
  • John 6:60 : 60 On hearing this, many of his disciples said, 'This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?'

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  • John 7:33-35
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    33Then Jesus said, 'I will be with you a little while longer, and then I am going to the One who sent Me.'

    34You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.'

    35At this, the Jews said to one another, 'Where does this man intend to go that we will not be able to find Him? Does He plan to go to the dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

  • John 8:19-24
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    19Then they asked him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

    20He spoke these words while teaching in the temple treasury. Yet no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.

    21Then he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come."

    22So the Jews said, "Surely he won’t kill himself, will he, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?

    23He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

    24That is why I told you that you will die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."

  • John 7:11
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    11The Jews were looking for Him at the festival and saying, 'Where is He?

  • John 5:38-40
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    38Nor do you have His word abiding in you, because you do not believe the one He sent.

    39You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; yet it is they that testify about me.

    40But you are unwilling to come to me so that you may have life.

  • John 13:33
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    33'Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, so now I tell you: Where I am going, you cannot come.'

  • John 6:35-36
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    35Jesus said to them, 'I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.'

    36'But as I told you, you have seen me, and yet you do not believe.'

  • John 7:37
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    37On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and cried out, 'If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.'

  • John 16:16-19
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    16A little while, and you will no longer see me; and again a little while, and you will see me, because I am going to the Father.

    17Then some of his disciples said to one another, 'What does he mean by saying, “A little while and you will no longer see me; and again a little while and you will see me,” and “because I am going to the Father”?'

    18They said, 'What does he mean by “a little while”? We do not know what he is talking about.'

    19Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, 'Are you discussing among yourselves what I meant when I said, “A little while and you will no longer see me; and again a little while and you will see me”?'

  • John 6:24-26
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    24So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum seeking Jesus.

    25When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, 'Rabbi, when did you get here?'

    26Jesus answered them, 'Truly, truly, I tell you, you are seeking me not because you saw the signs, but because you ate the bread and were satisfied.'

  • John 16:5
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    5But now I am going to the one who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

  • John 7:27-28
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    27But we know where this man is from. When the Messiah comes, no one will know where He is from.

    28Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple, cried out, 'You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You do not know Him.

  • John 8:14
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    14Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

  • Mark 1:37
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    37and when they found him, they said, 'Everyone is looking for you.'

  • John 11:56-57
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    56So they were looking for Jesus and were saying to one another as they stood in the temple, 'What do you think? Will he not come to the feast at all?'

    57Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, they should report it so that they could arrest him.

  • John 13:36
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    36Simon Peter said to Him, 'Lord, where are You going?' Jesus answered, 'Where I am going, you cannot follow Me now, but you will follow later.'

  • John 7:19
    73%

    19Didn't Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill Me?

  • John 7:25
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    25Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, 'Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?

  • John 18:7-8
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    72%

    7Jesus asked them again, 'Whom are you looking for?' And they said, 'Jesus the Nazarene.'

    8Jesus answered, 'I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, let these men go.'

  • Luke 22:68
    72%

    68And if I ask you, you will not answer, and you will not release me.

  • Luke 17:22-23
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    22Then he said to the disciples, 'The days are coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.'

    23People will say to you, 'Look, there he is!' or 'Here he is!' Do not go running off after them.

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    62Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before?

  • John 8:43
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    43Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.

  • Luke 20:7
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    7So they answered that they did not know where it came from.

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    7If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him and have seen him.

  • Luke 7:31
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    31Jesus said, 'To what, then, can I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?'

  • John 7:8
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    8'You go up to the festival. I am not going up to this festival yet, because My time has not yet been fulfilled.'

  • John 8:47
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    47The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you do not listen, because you are not from God.

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    65He went on to say, 'This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted to them by the Father.'

  • John 6:52
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    52Then the Jews argued sharply among themselves, 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?'

  • John 6:67
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    67So Jesus asked the Twelve, 'Do you also want to leave?'

  • John 11:34
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    34'Where have you laid him?' he asked. 'Come and see, Lord,' they replied.