Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 7:34
Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me - When the Roman armies come against you, you will vainly seek for a deliverer. But ye shall be cut off in your sins, because ye did not believe in me; and where I am - in the kingdom of glory, ye cannot come; for nothing that is unholy shall enter into the new Jerusalem. In this, and the thirty-sixth verse, εἰμὶ , I am, is read by several εἷμι , I came, as in the twenty-ninth verse; and in these two last places the Ethiopic, Arabic, three... read more
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - John 7:33
Yet a little while am I with you - As he knew that the Pharisees had designed to take and put him to death, and that in about six months from this time, as some conjecture, he should be crucified, he took the present opportunity of giving this information to the common people, who were best disposed towards him, that they might lay their hearts to his teaching, and profit by it, while they had the privilege of enjoying it. The word αυτοις , to them, in the beginning of this verse, is... read more