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34 You’ll look for me but won’t find me.[a] And where I am, you cannot come.”

35 Then the Jewish leaders[b] asked one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we won’t be able to find him? Surely he’s not going to the Dispersion[c] among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he? 36 What does this statement mean that he said, ‘You’ll look for me but won’t find me,’ and, ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”

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Footnotes

  1. John 7:34 Other mss. lack me
  2. John 7:35 I.e. Judean leaders; lit. the Jews
  3. John 7:35 Or Diaspora; i.e. the Jewish communities outside the land of Israel

34 You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.”(A)

35 The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered(B) among the Greeks,(C) and teach the Greeks? 36 What did he mean when he said, ‘You will look for me, but you will not find me,’ and ‘Where I am, you cannot come’?”(D)

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