<p>7:33 <i>Jesus replied: Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go to Him that sent me</i>- The Lord's ministry was incredibly short. Three and a half years within the entire span of human history, and indeed, all existence and time as we know it.</p><p>The disciples were all too influenced by Judaism, the &ldquo;generation&rdquo; or world around them. The disciples and Judaism / the Jewish world are paralleled in Jn. 7:3,4: &ldquo;Let your disciples see your work&hellip; shew yourself to the world&rdquo;.&nbsp; <br />The Lord Jesus has to say the same words to the Jews as He does to the disciples:&nbsp;</p><div align=center><table border=0 cellspacing=10 cellpadding=0 width=90%>    <tbody>        <tr>            <td width=278 valign=top>            <p>            <b>Phrase</b></p>            </td>            <td width=276 valign=top>            <p><b>To the Jews</b></p>            </td>            <td width=280 valign=top>            <p><b>To the disciples</b></p>            </td>        </tr>        <tr>            <td width=278 valign=top>            <p>&ldquo;I am to be with you only a little longer&rdquo;</p>            </td>            <td width=276 valign=top>            <p>Jn. 7:33</p>            </td>            <td width=280 valign=top>            <p>Jn. 13:33</p>            </td>        </tr>        <tr>            <td width=278 valign=top>            <p>&ldquo;You will look for me&rdquo;</p>            </td>            <td width=276 valign=top>            <p>Jn. 7:34; 8:21</p>            </td>            <td width=280 valign=top>            <p>Jn. 13:33</p>            </td>        </tr>        <tr>            <td width=278 valign=top>            <p>&ldquo;Where I am going, you cannot come&rdquo;</p>            </td>            <td width=276 valign=top>            <p>Jn. 7:34; 8:21</p>            </td>            <td width=280 valign=top>            <p>Jn. 13:33</p>            </td>        </tr>    </tbody></table></div><p>Greek (unlike Hebrew) uses tenses in a very precise way. There are some real problems in understanding exactly why the Lord changes tenses so often, e.g. in Jn. 7:33,34: &quot;Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me. Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am we would expect: 'Where I will go / be', thither ye cannot not 'will not be able to' come&quot;. He saw Himself as both with the Father, already glorified, and yet also still in mortal life. Another example is in the way He speaks of how the faithful <i>are </i>equal to the Angels, <i>being </i>the children of the resurrection (Lk. 20:35,36- in the context of explaining how 'all live' unto God)- we would rather expect Him to speak of how the faithful <i>will be </i>equal to Angels, <i>will be </i>resurrected etc. But He pointedly speaks in the present tense. He realized that He had not yet made the required sacrifice and broken the power of death in resurrection. But He also was confident in faith that He would achieve these things, and He looked at things from outside of time as we know it- from His Father's perspective.</p>