João 8:22

22 Então diziam os judeus: Será que ele vai suicidar-se, pois diz: Para onde eu vou, vós não podeis ir?

João 8:22 Meaning and Commentary

John 8:22

Then said the Jews, will he kill himself?
&c.] Which was not only a wicked, but a foolish consequence, drawn from his words: for it by no means followed, because he was going away, and whither they could not come, that therefore he must destroy himself; this seems to be what they would have been glad he would have done, and suggested the thought that he might do it, in which they imitated Satan, ( Matthew 4:6 ) , under whose influence they now apparently were, and hoped that he would, which would at once extricate them out of their difficulties on his account:

because he sayeth, whither I go ye cannot come:
this is no reason at all; for had Christ's meaning been, as they blasphemously intimate, they might have destroyed themselves too, and have gone after him.

João 8:22 In-Context

20 Essas palavras proferiu Jesus no lugar do tesouro, quando ensinava no templo; e ninguém o prendeu, porque ainda não era chegada a sua hora.

21 Disse-lhes, pois, Jesus outra vez: Eu me retiro; buscar-me- eis, e morrereis no vosso pecado. Para onde eu vou, vós não podeis ir.

22 Então diziam os judeus: Será que ele vai suicidar-se, pois diz: Para onde eu vou, vós não podeis ir?

23 Disse-lhes ele: Vós sois de baixo, eu sou de cima; vós sois deste mundo, eu não sou deste mundo.

24 Por isso vos disse que morrereis em vossos pecados; porque, se não crerdes que eu sou, morrereis em vossos pecados.