Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.
Little children, х teknia (G5040)]. From the height of His own glory He now descends, with sweet pity, to His "little children," all now His own. This term of endearment, nowhere else used in the Gospels, and once only employed by Paul (Galatians 4:19), is appropriated by the beloved disciple himself, who no fewer than seven times employs it in his first Epistle.
Yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me - shall feel the want of Me.
And as I said unto the Jews (John 7:34; John 8:21). A remarkable word this here - "the Jews." The Eleven were all themselves Jews. But now that He and they were on a higher footing, He leaves the name to those who were Jews, and nothing but Jews.
Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. But, O, in what a different sense!