Bible Strands
John 7:33
So Jesus said, “I am with you only a little while longer, and then I am going to the One who sent Me.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus addresses the crowd and religious leaders in the temple courts at the moment the chief priests and Pharisees dispatch officers to arrest Him. He speaks this declaration immediately before the authorities move to seize Him.
The words — ἔτι (eti) means "yet" or "still," and μικρὸν (mikron) means "a little," combining to denote a short remaining duration.
The thread — The text states this brief remaining presence and departure to the Father, which recurs in John 13:33, John 16:5, and culminates in Mark 16:19.
Why it lands — The text states that His physical presence is finite and His destination is determined by the One who sent Him, not by human opposition. It requires the reader to acknowledge the certainty of His departure and the limits placed on those who seek to stop it.
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The Greek words
King James Version
Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.
Cross-references
- John 13:33 Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
- John 16:5 Now, however, I am going to Him who sent Me; yet none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’
- Mark 16:19 After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
- John 14:19 In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live.
- John 17:11 I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.
- John 17:13 But now I am coming to You; and I am saying these things while I am in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.
- John 12:35 Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
- John 13:1 It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
- John 13:3 Jesus knew that the Father had delivered all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was returning to God.
- John 16:10 in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me;