What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come?
What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, there ye cannot come? Thinking this theory of His words too outrageous or contemptible, they are quite baffled as to its meaning, and yet cannot help feeling that something deep lay under it. Jesus, however, takes no notice of their questions; and so for the time the subject dies away. And yet, long after this, Jesus recurs to this warning of His, in discoursing to the Eleven at the Supper table (John 13:33).
And now we come to one of the grandest of all His utterances.