19 So they were saying to him, “Where is your father?” Jesus replied, “You know neither me nor my Father! If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.” 20 He spoke these words by the treasury while[a] teaching in the temple courts,[b] and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.

Jesus Predicts His Death

21 So he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me and will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come!”

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Footnotes

  1. John 8:20 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“teaching”) which is understood as temporal
  2. John 8:20 *Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself