Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
And shall not find me (kai oux eurhsete me). Future active indicative of euriskw. Jesus had said: "Seek and ye shall find" (Matthew 7:7), but this will be too late. Now they were seeking (verse John 7:30) to kill Jesus, then they will seek deliverance, but too late.
Where I am (opou eimi egw). No conflict with verse John 7:33, but the essential eternal spiritual home of Christ "in absolute, eternal being and fellowship with the Father" (Vincent).
Ye cannot come (umeiv ou dunasqe elqein). This fellowship was beyond the comprehension of these hostile Jews. See the same idea in John 7:36 by the Jews; John 8:21 to the Jews and then to the disciples with the addition of "now" (arti, John 13:33, nun in John 13:36).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
John 8:21
James 1:1
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