20 He spoke these words by the treasury,[a](A) while teaching in the temple complex. But no one seized Him, because His hour[b] had not come.

Jesus Predicts His Departure

21 Then He said to them again, “I’m going away;(B) you will look for Me, and you will die in your sin.(C) Where I’m going, you cannot come.”(D)

22 So the Jews said again, “He won’t kill Himself, will He, since He says, ‘Where I’m going, you cannot come’(E)?”

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Footnotes

  1. John 8:20 A place for offerings to be given, perhaps in the court of women
  2. John 8:20 The time of His sacrificial death and exaltation; Jn 2:4; 7:30; 12:23,27; 13:1; 17:1

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