John 7:35
"You will seek me and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”"
Key Reflection
In John 7:35, Jesus speaks to a crowd in Jerusalem during the Feast of Tabernacles, expressing that they will seek Him but not find Him, and cannot go where He is going. This statement would have been shocking to His audience because it implies a barrier between Jesus and those seeking Him—a barrier rooted in their inability to follow or enter the divine sphere He now inhabits as the Messiah. For first-century Jews, this teaching underscored the spiritual distance created by sin and the need for a mediator between God and humanity, which only Jesus could fulfill.
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From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes