Jean 13:33

33 Mes petits enfants, je suis encore avec vous pour un peu de temps; vous me chercherez, et, comme je l'ai dit aux Juifs, je vous le dis aussi à vous maintenant: Où je vais, vous ne pouvez venir.

Jean 13:33 Meaning and Commentary

John 13:33

Little children, yet a little while I am with you
Christ having removed the scandal of his death, by observing, that both he and his Father would be glorified by it, begins more freely to open his mind to his disciples, and acquaint them with it; whom he addresses in the most kind, tender, and affectionate manner, "little children", expressing the relation which subsisted between them, of which he was not unmindful; his great affection for them, his consideration of their weakness, and sympathy with them on that account; who were very ill able to bear his departure, which he now thought high time to acquaint them with, that it would be very shortly: it was but a little while he was to be with them, a few days more; the time of his departure was at hand, his hour was as it were come, and the last sands were dropping:

ye shall seek me;
as persons in distress, under great concern, not knowing what to do, or where to go:

and as I said unto the Jews,
( John 7:33 John 7:34 ) ;

whither I go ye cannot come, so now I say unto you;
but with this difference, whereas the unbelieving Jews, who died in their sins, could never come whither he went, these his disciples, though they could not come now, yet they should hereafter, all of them, as well as Peter, ( John 13:36 ) .

Jean 13:33 In-Context

31 Quand il fut sorti, Jésus dit: Maintenant le Fils de l'homme est glorifié, et Dieu est glorifié en lui.
32 Si Dieu est glorifié en lui, Dieu le glorifiera aussi en lui-même, et il le glorifiera bientôt.
33 Mes petits enfants, je suis encore avec vous pour un peu de temps; vous me chercherez, et, comme je l'ai dit aux Juifs, je vous le dis aussi à vous maintenant: Où je vais, vous ne pouvez venir.
34 Je vous donne un commandement nouveau; c'est que vous vous aimiez les uns les autres; que, comme je vous ai aimés, vous vous aimiez aussi les uns les autres.
35 C'est à ceci que tous reconnaîtront que vous êtes mes disciples, si vous avez de l'amour les uns pour les autres.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.