<p>8:21- see on Jn. 7:33.</p><p><i>He replied again to them: I go away, and you shall seek me, and shall die in your sins. Where I go, you cannot come</i>- There is never a time in mortal life when a man cannot seek the Lord and find Him; indeed, many of the Pharisees were later baptized, according to Acts. So this time of seeking and not finding must refer to the last day. They could not come to the relationship He had with the Father because He was going away, they were going to kill Him on the cross, and would never after that find the humility to repent. For they need not die in their sins, if they accepted that &quot;I am He&quot; (:24).</p><p>&ldquo;I go my way&quot; was to the cross. He was and is the way, the cross is the only way to the true life, both now and eternally. &ldquo;Whither I go ye know, and the way ye know&quot; (14:4) further cements the connection between His &ldquo;way&quot; and the cross. From here up to :25, the Lord twice seeks to confront them with their sin, and yet they ignore this matter and get lost in speculation about His more cryptic statements. And this is why a man can spend hours or even a lifetime in 'Bible study' and come out with a conscience untouched as to his personal sin. Because humanity has a terrible way of footnoting the Lord's conviction of our sins and getting endlessly lost in striving about words and their interpretations.&nbsp;</p>