19 Then they asked Him, “Where is Your Father?”

“You know neither Me nor My Father,”(A) Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would also know My Father.”(B) 20 He spoke these words by the treasury,[a](C) while teaching in the temple complex. But no one seized Him, because His hour[b] had not come.

Jesus Predicts His Departure

21 Then He said to them again, “I’m going away;(D) you will look for Me, and you will die in your sin.(E) Where I’m going, you cannot come.”(F)

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Footnotes

  1. John 8:20 A place for offerings to be given, perhaps in the court of women
  2. John 8:20 The time of His sacrificial death and exaltation; Jn 2:4; 7:30; 12:23,27; 13:1; 17:1

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