Part 1

ST. JOHN 8, VERSES 21 & 22
“21 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. 22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? Because he saith; whither I go, ye cannot come.”

Jesus Christ confirming, what he said already, told the Jews once again that they would fail to kill him and they would never arrest him. Jesus told them he would go his way and they would still be searching for him trying to arrest him, Jesus told them they would not be able to find him or arrest him, as they could not go where he would be already gone.

Jesus would beat them and they would die in sin for not believing he is the Christ whom God sent. Jesus would go his way and his way is was up to heaven where the only true God that sent him is sitting on his throne. He said he would go at the time the Jews would still be seeking to arrest him, he would go without the Jews being able to arrest him and so they never would.

“I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.”

If Jesus was ever arrested by the Jews, then that means Jesus was not able to go his way. It means that he failed, was found and stopped by the Jews, or if so, then the Jews were able to follow him and go to where he went, find him and arrest him, which would have been the opposite of what Jesus truthfully said.

What did the Jews understand by what Jesus told them once again?

ST. JOHN 8, VERSE 22
“Then said the Jews, will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.”

Once again, as we see in the above verse, the Jews not wanting to believe that Jesus is truthful and sent to them from God, they did not understand where Jesus was going when he told them he would be going where they could not go, but what they clearly understood was that Jesus was telling them they would never arrest him. The Jews thought Jesus was telling them he was planning suicide, and in doing so they could never arrest him and they could not go to where he is.

This understanding by the Jews proves that Jesus Christ was telling them he would go his way up to God before and without ever being arrested, he would go up to heaven without ever being killed.

Jesus Christ saying these words once again to the Jews; was in response to them being anxious to arrest him and kill him. He was telling them he would beat them, he would go his way up to God; saved and glorified, before they ever arrested him or being able to kill him, and so they would loose and die in sin.

“…I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.”

That makes Jesus Christ being crucified, impossible.

Now let us discuss one other very important part of what Jesus told the Jews; let us look at when did the Jews seek Jesus?

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

ST. JOHN 8, VERSE 21
“Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sin: whither I go, ye cannot come.”

Jesus said: when he went his way up to God who sent him, the Jews would still be searching for him wanting to arrest him. Jesus said they would fail as he would be already gone out of this world and they couldn’t follow him to heaven.

When did the Jews seek Jesus Christ?

ST. LUKE 22, VERSE 2
“And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.”

ST. LUKE 22, VERSES 4 & 5
“4 And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them. 5 And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.”

ST. JOHN 7, VERSE 1
“After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.”

ST. JOHN 7, VERSE 11
“Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?”

ST. JOHN 7, VERSE 25
“Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?”

ST. JOHN 8, VERSE 40
“But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.”

The Jews were searching for Jesus Christ wanting and trying to arrest him from the time when God sent Jesus with a message to teach the children of Israel and up until the time they arrested someone thinking it was Jesus.

Did the Jews seek Jesus after they arrested someone thinking it was Jesus?

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Part 2

When the Jews arrested someone else thinking he was Jesus, Jesus was already out of this world, safe and lifted up by God to heaven. As he repeatedly told them before.

ST. MATHEW 28, VERSES 11 – 15
“11 Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done. 12 And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, 13 Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept. 14 And, if this come to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him, and secure you. 15 So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.”

The Jews never did search for Jesus or wanted, or even cared where he was, or thought about trying to get him once they arrested someone thinking he was Jesus and crucified that person. But Jesus said at the time he would go up to heaven; they would still be seeking him, not yet being able to find him and could not follow him?

But the Jews did the complete opposite of seeking him.

According to Matthew, when some of the watch soldiers that were guarding the grave (where the crucified person whom they thought was Jesus was buried) came to them and told them that the one they thought was Jesus was not in the grave anymore, the Jews gave these soldiers money to say a lie and promised to secure them, and as the Gospel says this lie stayed common among the Jews.

The other three Gospels do not mention anything at all about the Jews after the time of the crucifixion, which clearly proves to us that the Jews never did seek Jesus after that. At that point in time, the Jews thought they already arrested Jesus and crucified him, and so there was no reason for them to keep searching for him.

The Jews never did seek Jesus after the crucifixion took place, they did not search for him, they did not want or try to arrest him, but what they did was bribing the police to say a lie.

But the truthful Jesus Christ said when he went his way up to heaven; the Jews would be still searching for him trying to catch him?

“… and then I go …,Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: …”

“… I go my way, and ye shall seek me…”

Also, the truthful Jesus Christ was not in heaven at that time (after the crucifixion), but he was on earth where the Jews can go and can follow.

ST. MATTHEW 28, VERSE 10
“Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.”

ST. LUKE 24, VERSE 36
“And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.”

But Jesus said he would already be in heaven at the time when the Jews would still be searching for him, where they could not go and could not follow?

“…and where I am, thither ye cannot come… whither I go, ye cannot come.”

The ‘seeking’ that Jesus was talking about would still continue after he went his way and already was in heaven. So even if the Jews did seek Jesus after the time of the crucifixion and stopped while Jesus was still on earth before he was lifted up to God at the end in front of his disciples; it could not be the time Jesus was describing to them. Jesus said he would be already gone on his way to heaven when they would still be making the search to arrest him.

“…and then I go unto him that sent me. Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.”

“I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.”

The time Jesus was talking about could only be the time before the crucifixion, when the Jews were actually searching for him wanting and trying to arrest him. During that time Jesus went his way up to God, he was lifted up to heaven and then the Jews arrested someone else thinking he was Jesus, but Jesus, as he truthfully said, was already gone on his way to heaven at that time.

And that proves Jesus never was crucified.

The person the Jews arrested and crucified thinking he was Jesus was not Jesus. When the Jews arrested that person, the truthful Jesus Christ was already up in heaven saved and glorified as he truthfully said. And when he came back and was on earth after the crucifixion, Jesus did not rise from the dead, Jesus was never killed, Jesus was still alive, but he came down from heaven from the place he was throughout the time of the arrest and the crucifixion of that person. Jesus came back to prove to his disciples that he was truthful, such as he told them he was never arrested and never was crucified, but saved and glorified by God up in heaven.

Did Jesus Christ mention him being safe in heaven during the crucifixion, and him coming down from heaven to prove it to the disciples afterwards?

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