John 8:21-24 Then said Jesus again to them, I go my way, and you shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: where I go, you cannot come.… Afterwards at the siege of Jerusalem by Titus, many of the desperate Jews did the very thing they here said of our Lord — they killed themselves in madness of despair.()Self-murder was, by the Jews, esteemed the most aggravated of crimes — a crime which sent everyone after death to Gehenna, the place of damnation. Josephus, in the weighty speech wherein he warns his companions in war, who had been hemmed in by the enemy, to refrain from self-murder, says of suicides, "a darker hell receives the souls of such." The Jews, no doubt, perceived very well what Christ meant to say. But, instead of permitting themselves to be humbled, their only purpose was to retort upon Christ the cutting expression, "Ye shall die in your sins," and, therefore, they contemptuously utter the taunt, "Well, if He is determined to take His own life and go to Gehenna, He is indeed correct when He says that no one will follow Him thither." (Tholuck.) Parallel Verses KJV: Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come. |
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