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21 He said to them again, “I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin.[a] Where I am going you cannot come.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 8:21 You will die in your sin: i.e., of disbelief; cf. Jn 8:24. Where I am going you cannot come: except through faith in Jesus’ passion-resurrection.

36 While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of the light.”(A)

Unbelief and Belief Among the Jews. After he had said this, Jesus left and hid from them.

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33 My children, I will be with you only a little while longer. You will look for me, and as I told the Jews, ‘Where I go you cannot come,’ so now I say it to you.(A)

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Peter’s Denial Predicted. 36 Simon Peter said to him, “Master, where are you going?” Jesus answered [him], “Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, though you will follow later.”(A)

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But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you asks me,[a] ‘Where are you going?’(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 16:5 Not one of you asks me: the difficulty of reconciling this with Simon Peter’s question in Jn 13:36 and Thomas’ words in Jn 14:5 strengthens the supposition that the last discourse has been made up of several collections of Johannine material.

29 Yet when you seek the Lord, your God, from there, you shall indeed find him if you search after him with all your heart and soul.(A)

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28 Then they will call me, but I will not answer;
    they will seek me, but will not find me,

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[a]Seek the Lord while he may be found,
    call upon him while he is near.

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Footnotes

  1. 55:6–9 The invitation to seek the Lord is motivated by the mercy of a God whose “ways” are completely mysterious.

With their flocks and herds they will go
    to seek the Lord, but will not find him;(A)
    he has withdrawn from them.

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