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ST. JOHN 7, VERSES 32 – 36.
“32 The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him. 33 Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me. 34 Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come. 35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles? 36 What manner of saying is this that he said; Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come?”

The Jews sent some officers to arrest the truthful Jesus Christ, but Jesus told them he was still going to be with them for a while longer yet, and then he would be going to God who sent him. Jesus said the Jews would be still searching for him wanting to arrest him, but they would fail to do so, Jesus said the place where he would be, the Jews couldn’t go to.

Since the Jews did not want to accept or believe that Jesus was the Christ sent to them from God, they did not understand what and where was this place Jesus spoke of. But the one thing the Jews understood was that Jesus was going away after a little while and they would never succeed in arresting him; they would not arrest him now and would not arrest him then either, so they started guessing what and where was this place Jesus would be going to?

ST. MATHEW 23, VERSE 9
“And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.”

ST. MATHEW 23, VERSE 22
“And he that shall swear by heaven sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.”

ST. LUKE 11, VERSE 2
“And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.”

ST. JOHN 17, VERSES 1 – 3
“1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: 2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”

The place Jesus described to the Jews is ‘heaven’, where the only true God, who sent Jesus to earth, is sitting on his throne.

Let us now look at what Jesus told the Jews in more details.

ST. JOHN 7, VERSE 33
“Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.”

Yet for a little longer Jesus would be with the Jews; yet for a little while he would be on earth, and then, Jesus would go out of this world up to God who sent him and who is sitting on his throne in heaven.

By Jesus being lifted up from this world up to heaven, the Jews could not possibly arrest him, since they could not follow him into heaven.

ST. JOHN 7, VERSE 34
“Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.”

Jesus said these words by way of an answer to the Jews seeking to kill him and sending officers to arrest him, telling them, he would be with them a little while longer. Therefore they would not be able to arrest him now, and then, when the time came, he would go to the one who sent him, he would go to God in heaven and the Jews would still be searching for him, they would not find him and they could not follow him to heaven, and so they would also fail to arrest him at that time. Jesus was telling the Jews he would go up to God without ever being arrested.

Now let us discuss the “little while” Jesus said he would still be with the Jews, while they were seeking to catch him.

ST. JOHN 7, VERSES 32 & 33
“32 The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him. 33 Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.”

That was what Jesus Christ said to the officers who were sent to arrest him. He said he would not be arrested because he would be with them a little longer. Jesus told them he would not be arrested at that time and as he said, he was not.

What would the Jews have done if they had arrested Jesus Christ at that time?

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Part 2

When Jesus told the Jews they will not catch him “then”, they will not catch him “later”, and they will seek him but not find him, because he will already be gone out of this word, lifted and saved by God who sent him, Jesus was telling them the promise God taught and promised him, and God never breaks His promise.

ST. JOHN 7, VERSES 19 & 25
“19 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me? 25 Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?”

If Jesus was to be arrested at that time, the Jews would have killed him. Therefore, Jesus would not be with them yet a little longer, before he went to God, since it was known, to Jesus and to the people of Jerusalem that the Jews were seeking to kill him. Moreover, if Jesus was to be arrested at that time, the Jews would stop seeking him. Yet Jesus said the Jews would be seeking him still during the little while and after he went up to heaven. Consequently, during the time Jesus was yet with them for a little while, Jesus was not arrested.

Was Jesus arrested when that time “the little while” ended, or was he saved and lifted up to heaven and never was arrested?

ST. JOHN 7, VERSE 33
“Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.”

Jesus Christ said, when ‘the little while I am with you’ ends I would go up to God that sent me. Which meant that when that time ends ‘and then he goes unto him’, there was no period between these two events in which anything was to take place.

Jesus did not say when ‘a little while’ ended he would be arrested. What he said was, when that time ends, he would go and they would still be searching for him wanting to arrest him. But he would not be found and could not be followed. The Jews would fail to find him, follow him and to arrest him then, and would never do. That’s what Jesus told them.

Let us read what Jesus said once more.

ST. JOHN 7, VERSES 33 & 34
“33 Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me. 34 Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.”

Jesus told the Jews he will never be arrested, he will not be arrested now because he would still be with them for a little while longer, and he would not be arrested then because he would not be found and could not be followed. He said he would be gone up to heaven to God who sent him before and without ever being arrested, while they would still be seeking him trying to arrest him at that time, as they were now.

If Jesus Christ was arrested after being ‘a little while with them’, then that would mean the Jews were able to find him and were able to go to where he is, which then means Jesus did not go to God but instead went to jail, and that would have been the complete opposite of what he truthfully said. Jesus didn’t speak his ideas, but what he heard from God, and what he said to the Jews is what God told him to say.

This being said by Jesus proves to us that Jesus was lifted up to heaven without ever being arrested.

Jesus Christ was never arrested and so never was crucified!

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