John 7:32-36

Contemporary English Version

Officers Sent To Arrest Jesus

³² When the Pharisees heard the crowd arguing about Jesus, they got together with the chief priests and sent some temple police to arrest him. ³³ But Jesus told them, “I will be with you a little while longer, and then I will return to the one who sent me. ³⁴ You will look for me, but you won't find me. You cannot go where I am going.”

³⁵ The people asked each other, “Where can he go to keep us from finding him? Is he going to some foreign country where our people live? Is he going there to teach the Greeks?^{[a] 36} 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?”