John 13:33 BSB — MannaFest

John 13:33

Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’

BSB

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ASV

Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say unto you.

KJV

Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.

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Commentary

1 voice

Origen of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 32.376 (253)

The statement "Yet a little while I am with you" is clear in the simple sense, so far as the literal sense is concerned, since he would soon no longer be with the disciples. First, he was arrested by the cohort and the tribune and the servants of the Jews who bound him and led him off to Annas first, and after this he was delivered to Pilate. Next, he was condemned to the cross, and then he spent three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Little children - An expression of great tenderness, denoting his deep interest in their welfare. As he was about to leave them, he endeavors to mitigate their grief by the most tender expressions of attachment, showing that he felt for them the deep interest in their welfare which a parent feels for his children. The word “children” is often given to Christians as implying: 1. That God is their Father, and that they sustain toward him that endearing relation, Rom 8:14-15. 2. As denoting their need of teaching and guidance, as children need the aid and counsel of a father.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Little children--From the height of His own glory He now descends, with sweet pity, to His "little children," all now His own. This term of endearment, nowhere else used in the Gospels, and once only employed by Paul (Ga 4:19), is appropriated by the beloved disciple himself, who no fewer than seven times employs it in his first Epistle.

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
τεκνία,	teknia	Little children,	G5040 →
ἔτι	eti	yet	G2089 →
μικρὸν	mikron	a little while	G3398 →
μεθ᾽	meth᾽	with	G3326 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	you	G4771 →
εἰμι.	eimi	I am.	G1510 →
ζητήσετέ	zētēsete	You will seek	G2212 →
με,	me	Me,	G3165 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
καθὼς	kathōs	even as	G2531 →
εἶπον	eipon	I said	G2036 →
τοῖς	tois	to the	G3588 →
Ἰουδαίοις	Ioudaiois	Jews	G2453 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
ὅπου	hopou	Where	G3699 →
ἐγὼ	egō	I myself	G1473 →
ὑπάγω,	hupagō	go	G5217 →
ὑμεῖς	humeis	you yourselves	G4771 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
δύνασθε	dunasthe	are able	G1410 →
ἐλθεῖν,	elthein	to come,	G2064 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
ὑμῖν	humin	to you	G4771 →
λέγω	legō	I say	G3004 →
ἄρτι.¶	arti	now.	G737 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 John 2:1
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
leads to
- 1 Timothy 2:5
  For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
- Romans 8:34
  Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.
- John 14:6
  Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
- 1 John 1:8–10
  If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
- Hebrews 7:24–26
  But because Jesus lives forever, He has a permanent priesthood.
Through
John 14:19
In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live.
leads to
- John 16:16
  In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me.”
- John 6:56–58
  Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.
- John 7:33
  So Jesus said, “I am with you only a little while longer, and then I am going to the One who sent Me.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About John

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About John