32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers in order to take him into custody .[a] 33 Then Jesus said, “Yet a little time I am with you, and I am going to the one who sent me. 34 You will seek me and will not find me,[b][c] and where I am, you cannot come.”

35 So the Jews said to one another, “Where is this one going to go, that we will not find him? He is not going to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?[d] 36 What is this saying that he said, ‘You will seek me and will not find me,[e][f] and where I am, you cannot come’?”

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Footnotes

  1. John 7:32 Literally “that they could seize him”
  2. John 7:34 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. John 7:34 Some manuscripts explicitly state “me”
  4. John 7:35 *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “is he
  5. John 7:36 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  6. John 7:36 Some manuscripts explicitly state “me”

32 The ho Pharisees Pharisaios heard akouō the ho crowd ochlos secretly discussing gongyzō these things houtos about peri Jesus autos, so kai the ho chief priests archiereus and kai Pharisees Pharisaios sent apostellō · ho temple hypēretēs guards to hina arrest piazō him autos. 33 Then oun Jesus Iēsous said legō, · ho I will be eimi with meta you hymeis for a little mikros while chronos longer eti, and kai then I am going hypagō back to pros the ho one who sent pempō me egō. 34 You will look zēteō for me egō, but kai you will not ou find heuriskō me egō; and kai where hopou I egō am eimi, you hymeis cannot ou dynamai go erchomai.” 35 Then oun the ho Jews Ioudaios said legō to pros one heautou another , “ Where pou is this houtos man about mellō to go poreuō that hoti we hēmeis will not ou find heuriskō him autos? Surely he is mellō not going mellō to go poreuō to eis our ho people dispersed diaspora among the ho Greeks Hellēn and kai teach didaskō the ho Greeks Hellēn, is he ? 36 What tis can it mean eimi, · ho this houtos saying logos of his hos: ‘ You will look zēteō for me egō but kai you will not ou find heuriskō me egō,’ and kai Where hopou I egō am eimi you hymeis cannot ou dynamai go erchomai’?”

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