The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 8:22 in context
John 8:19–25
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They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?”
Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
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Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
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Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”
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The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?”
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He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.
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I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
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They said therefore to him, “Who are you?”
Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.
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