Joh 8:21-22 | RWP | e4.org | Again ( παλιν ). Probably παλιν (again) in verse refers to a day after the feast is over since the last day is mentioned in . So then here again we probably move on to another day still beyond that in verse . And ye shall seek me ( κα ζητησετε με ). As in , "the search of despair" (Bernard), seeking for the Messiah when it is too late, the tragedy of Judaism today ( ). And ye shall die in your sin ( κα εν τη αμαρτια υμων αποθανεισθε ). Future middle indicative of αποθνησκω which is the emphatic word here (cf. ; ; ). Note singular αμαρτια (sin) here, but plural αμαρτιαις (sins) when the phrase is repeated in verse (sin in its essence, sin in its acts). Ye cannot come ( υμεις ου δυνασθε ελθειν ). Precise language of to the Jews and to the apostles in .

‏ John 8:21-22

Again ( παλιν ). Probably παλιν (again) in verse 12 refers to a day after the feast is over since the last day is mentioned in 7:37. So then here again we probably move on to another day still beyond that in verse 12.

And ye shall seek me ( κα ζητησετε με ). As in 7:34, "the search of despair" (Bernard), seeking for the Messiah when it is too late, the tragedy of Judaism today (1:11).

And ye shall die in your sin ( κα εν τη αμαρτια υμων αποθανεισθε ). Future middle indicative of αποθνησκω which is the emphatic word here (cf. Eze 3:18; 18:18; Pr 24:9). Note singular αμαρτια (sin) here, but plural αμαρτιαις (sins) when the phrase is repeated in verse 24 (sin in its essence, sin in its acts).

Ye cannot come ( υμεις ου δυνασθε ελθειν ). Precise language of 7:34 to the Jews and to the apostles in 13:33.

Will he kill himself? ( μητ αποκτενε εαυτον; ). Negative answer formally expected, but there is a manifest sneer in the query. "The mockery in these words is alike subtle and bitter" (Vincent). It was a different group of Jews in 7:31 who cynically suggested that he was going to work among the Greeks in the Dispersion. Here they infer that Jesus refers to the next world. They suggest the depths of Gehenna for him as the abode of suicides (Josephus, War III. viii. 5). Of course the rabbis could not join Jesus there! Edersheim argues against this view.