The Leaders Try to Arrest Jesus

³² The Pharisees [see 1:24] heard the crowd ·whispering [arguing; murmuring; grumbling] these things about Jesus. So the leading priests and the Pharisees sent some Temple ·guards [police; officers] to ·arrest [seize] him. ³³ [^LTherefore] Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer. Then I will go back to the One who sent me. ³⁴ You will ·look for [seek] me, but you will not find me. And you cannot come where I am [^Cin heaven].”

³⁵ [^LTherefore] ·Some people [The Jewish leaders; ^LThe Jews] said to each other, “Where will this man go so we cannot find him? Will he go to the ·Greek cities where our people live [^Ldispersion/scattering among the Greeks; ^Cever since the Babylonian exile many Jewish people had lived outside the land of Israel] and teach the Greek people there? [^CThe Jews often used “Greeks” for Gentiles generally.] ³⁶ What did he mean when he said, ‘You will look for me, but you will not find me,’ and ‘You cannot come where I am’?”