John 7 · Verse 33

John 7:33

Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.
John 7:33, King James Version

John 7:33 in other translations

BSBSo Jesus said, “I am with you only a little while longer, and then I am going to the One who sent Me.
WEBThen Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.
ASVJesus therefore said, Yet a little while am I with you, and I go unto him that sent me.
YLTJesus, therefore, said to them, ‘Yet a little time I am with you, and I go away unto Him who sent me;
DARBYJesus therefore said, Yet a little while I am with you, and I go to him that has sent me.
BBEThen Jesus said, I will be with you a little longer and then I go to him who sent me.
WebsterThen said Jesus to them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go to him that sent me.

What does John 7:33 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on John 7:33-34
33-34. Yet a little while, &c.--that is, "Your desire to be rid of Me will be for you all too soon fulfilled. Yet a little while and we part company--for ever; for I go whither ye cannot come: nor, even when ye at length seek Him whom ye now despise, shall ye be able to find Him"--referring not to any penitential, but to purely selfish cries in their time of desperation.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Barnes' Notes
Verse 33. Yet a little while am I with you. It will not be long before my death. This is supposed to have been about six months before his death. This speech of Jesus is full of tenderness. They were seeking his life. He tells them that he is fully aware of it; that he will not be long with them; and implies that they should be diligent to seek him while he was yet with them. He was about to die, but they might now seek his favour and find it. When we remember that this was said to his persecutors and murderers; that it was said even while they were seeking his life, we see the peculiar tenderness of his love. Enmity, and hate, and persecution did not prevent his offering salvation to them.

I go unto him that sent me. This is one of the intimations that he gave that he would ascend to God. Comp. Jn 6:62.

(c) "Yet a little while" Jn 13:33, 16:16

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 33 Yet a little while am I with you - As he knew that the Pharisees had designed to take and put him to death, and that in about six months from this time, as some conjecture, he should be crucified, he took the present opportunity of giving this information to the common people, who were best disposed towards him, that they might lay their hearts to his teaching, and profit by it, while they had the privilege of enjoying it. The word αυτοις, to them, in the beginning of this verse, is wanting in BDEGHLMS, more than eighty others, both the Syriac, later Persic, Coptic, Sahidic, Armenian, Gothic, Slavonic, Saxon, most copies of the Vulgate and the Itala. It is omitted also by Euthymius, Theophylact, Augustin, and Bede. Our Lord did not speak these words to the officers who came to apprehend him, as αυτοις here implies, but to the common people, merely to show that he was not ignorant of the designs of the Pharisees, though they had not yet been able to put them into practice.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on John 7:31-36

The discourses of Jesus convinced many that he was the Messiah; but they had not courage to own it. It is comfort to those who are in the world, but not of it, and therefore are hated by it and weary of it, that they shall not be in it always, that they shall not be in it long. Our days being evil, it is well they are few. The days of life and of grace do not last long; and sinners, when in misery, will be glad of…

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John 7:33 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ΕἶπενEipenSaidG2036
οὖνounthereforeG3767
ὁho<the>G3588
Ἰησοῦς·IēsousJesus;G2424
ἔτιetiYetG2089
χρόνονchronontimeG5550
μικρὸνmikrona littleG3398
μεθ᾽meth᾽withG3326
ὑμῶνhumōnyouG4771
εἰμιeimiI amG1510
καὶkaiandG2532
ὑπάγωhupagōI goG5217
πρὸςprostoG4314
τὸνtonthe [One]G3588
πέμψαντάpempsantahaving sentG3992
με.meMe.G3165

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for John 7:33

  • John 13:33

    Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.

  • John 16:5

    But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?

  • Mark 16:19

    So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

  • John 17:11

    And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

  • John 14:19

    Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

  • John 17:13

    And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

  • John 16:16-22

    A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father. Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father? They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith. Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me? …

  • John 12:35-36

    Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.

  • John 16:28

    I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.

  • John 13:3

    Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;

  • John 16:10

    Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;

  • John 13:1

    Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Yet.
12:35,36; 13:1,3,33; 16:5,16-22; 17:11,13; Mr 16:19

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Context

  • John 7:32

    The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.

  • John 7:33

    Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.

  • John 7:34

    Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.

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John 7:33 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y Jesús dijo: Aun un poco de tiempo estaré con vosotros, é iré al que me envió.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Jésus donc dit: Je suis encore pour un peu de temps avec vous, et je m’en vais à celui qui m’a envoyé.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Da sprach Jesus: Noch eine kleine Zeit bin ich bei euch, und ich gehe hin zu dem, der mich gesandt hat.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Dixit ergo eis Jesus: Adhuc modicum tempus vobiscum sum: et vado ad eum qui me misit.