John 8:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I go my way, and ye shall seek me, &c.— Our Lord had said this to them in a former discourse, Ch. John 7:34 and repeated it now, that it might make the deeper impression upon them: his meaning here seems to be, that "after his ascension into heaven, when the Roman armieswere spreading desolation and death in every corner of the land, they would earnestly desire the coming of the Messiah, in expectation of deliverance; but should die for their sins, and under the guilt of them, without any Saviour whatsoever, and be excluded for ever from heaven." Perhaps in this our Lord opposed a common error of the Jews, who imagined that by death they made atonement for all their sins. Instead of in your sins, some render the original εν τη αμαρτια, in your sin, that is, of unbelief, see Ezekiel 3:19.