John 8:21
Good News Translation
Again Jesus said to them, "I will go away; you will look for me, but you will die in your sins. You cannot go where I am going."

New Revised Standard Version
Again he said to them, “I am going away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”

Contemporary English Version
Jesus also told them, "I am going away, and you will look for me. But you cannot go where I am going, and you will die with your sins unforgiven."

New American Bible
He said to them again, “I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Again therefore Jesus said to them: I go: and you shall seek me. And you shall die in your sin. Whither I go, you cannot come.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Again therefore Jesus said to them: I go: and you shall seek me. And you shall die in your sin. Whither I go, you cannot come.

I go.

John 7:34 You shall seek me and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come.

John 12:33,35 (Now this he said, signifying what death he should die.) . . .

1 Kings 18:10 As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when all answered: He is not here: he took an oath of every kingdom and nation, because thou wast not found.

2 Kings 2:16,17 And they said to him: Behold, there are with thy servants, fifty strong men, that can go, and seek thy master, lest, perhaps, the spirit of the Lord, hath taken him up and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said: Do not send. . . .

Matthew 23:39 For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Matthew 24:23,24 Then if any man shall say to you, Lo here is Christ, or there: do not believe him. . . .

and shall die.

John 8:24 Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins. For if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sin.

Job 20:11 His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.

Psalm 73:18-20 But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down. . . .

Proverbs 11:7 The just is delivered out of distress: and the wicked shall be given up for him.

Proverbs 14:32 The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.

Isaiah 65:20 There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old man that shall not fill up his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

Ezekiel 3:18,19 If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: thou declare it not to him, nor speak to him, that he may be converted from his wicked way, and live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand. . . .

Luke 16:22-26 And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:17,18 And if Christ be not risen again, your faith is vain: for you are yet in your sins. . . .

Ephesians 2:1 And you, when you were dead in your offences and sins,

whither.

John 7:34 You shall seek me and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come.

John 13:33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall seek me. And as I said to the Jews: Whither I go you cannot come; so I say to you now.

Matthew 25:41,46 Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared for the devil and his angels. . . .

Context
The Woman Caught in Adultery
20These words Jesus spoke in the treasury, teaching in the temple: and no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. 21Again therefore Jesus said to them: I go: and you shall seek me. And you shall die in your sin. Whither I go, you cannot come. 22The Jews therefore said: Will he kill himself, because he said: Whither I go you cannot come?…
Cross References
John 7:34
You shall seek me and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come.

John 7:36
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 8:24
Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins. For if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sin.

John 8:20
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