Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.
Jesus spoke these words at Jerusalem during the feast, while spies were watching Him and the rulers were trying to silence Him and humble Him before the people. “Yet a little while am I with you” meant He would remain with the people, His hearers, and His opposers only a brief time longer. “I go unto Him that sent Me” meant He would return and ascend to the Father, the One who sent Him.
That departure would take Him beyond the reach of His persecutors and enemies. There, beyond their reach, their hatred and scorn could no longer harm Him. After He went, those left behind would seek Him but would not find Him, and they could not follow or go where He was.
The saying stands connected with the failure of the officers sent to seize Jesus: although His enemies sought to silence Him, the officers were so influenced by His divine presence that they could not lay hands on Him. His statement that His teaching came from the One who sent Him shows that His words from God are evidence of His authority as a true teacher. The chapter containing the verse is Scripture to be heeded, and its counsel is reason to avoid ideas and actions that imperil God’s cause and one’s influence.
Jesus spoke these words at Jerusalem during the feast, while spies were watching Him and the rulers were trying to silence Him and humble Him before the people.
“Yet a little while am I with you” meant He would remain with the people, His hearers, and His opposers only a brief time longer.
“I go unto Him that sent Me” meant He would return and ascend to the Father, the One who sent Him.
That departure would take Him beyond the reach of His persecutors and enemies.
There, beyond their reach, their hatred and scorn could no longer harm Him.
After He went, those left behind would seek Him but would not find Him, and they could not follow or go where He was.
The saying stands connected with the failure of the officers sent to seize Jesus: although His enemies sought to silence Him, the officers were so influenced by His divine presence that they could not lay hands on Him.
His statement that His teaching came from the One who sent Him shows that His words from God are evidence of His authority as a true teacher.
The chapter containing the verse is Scripture to be heeded, and its counsel is reason to avoid ideas and actions that imperil God’s cause and one’s influence.