John 7:36 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³⁶ What did he mean by saying, ‘You people will be looking for me, but will not find me; and you will not be able to go where I will be?’”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁶ 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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁶ What does this statement of His mean, You will look for Me and not be able to find Me, and, Where I am, you cannot come?

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁶ What is this word that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, ye cannot come?

Common English Bible

³⁶ What does he mean when he says, ‘You will look for me, but you won’t find me, and where I am you can’t come’?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁶ What is this word that he spoke, 'You will seek me and you will not find me; and where I am, you are not able to go?' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁶ What is this saying that he hath said: You shall seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, you cannot come?

John 7:36 Cross References

John 12:34

Then the crowd replied to Him, “We have heard from [the writings of] the Law of Moses that the Christ will live forever; so how can you say, ‘The son of man must be lifted up [i.e., to die]?’ Who is this son of man?”

John 13:33

“I will be with you, [my dear] children, for only a little while [longer]. You people will look for me, but I am now telling you what I told the Jewish authorities, ‘You will not be able to go where I will be.’

John 3:4

Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born [again] after he is [already] old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born, can he?”

John 3:9

Then Nicodemus asked Jesus, “How can these things happen?”

John 6:41

So the Jews, [who were assembled in the synagogue. See verse 59] began complaining about Jesus because He had said; “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

John 6:52

Then the Jews [who were assembled in the synagogue. See verse 59] began arguing bitterly with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his physical body to eat?”

John 6:60

So, when they heard [these things], many of Jesus’ disciples said, “This is difficult teaching. Who can listen to it [i.e., and accept it]?”

John 7:34

You people will be looking for me, but you will not find me; and you will not be able to go where I will be.”

John 8:21

Jesus again said to them, “I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die [condemned] in your sins. You cannot go where I am going.”

1 Corinthians 2:14

Now the natural person [Note: Since this person is contrasted with the spiritual person of verse 15, it is taken here to mean the person without the Holy Spirit] does not receive the things [i.e., truths] revealed by the Holy Spirit of God, because they are [considered] foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them because they must be discerned by using spiritual judgment [i.e., judgment aided by the Holy Spirit].