<p>7:34 <i>You shall seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, you cannot come</i>- This sounds like Moses ascending the Mount, leaving Israel behind him. Yet &quot;Where I am&quot; refers to the Lord's unity with God; the heights of His relationship with God connect with the physical ascent of Moses into the mount to hear God's words. &ldquo;I will that they also... be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me&quot; (17:24) alludes to the 70 elders sharing Moses' experience in the Mount (Ex. 24:70); it is as if&nbsp;the Lord is saying that His disciples really can enter into His relationship with God, we can be where He was spiritually in His mortal life. The Jews would seek that, and not find it. Their window of opportunity was incredibly brief. There is no evidence that they sought the Lord and didn't find Him in their mortal lives; I suggest the reference is to the awful time of condemnation at the last day, when they shall seek Him too late but not find Him. The window of opportunity we have in this life is very small. Every moment is of intense, eternal significance. This motivated the Lord to shout out and appeal for them to respond (:28,37); and we must likewise see our witness as having the same urgency.</p><p>John 7:33-34: &ldquo;Then said Jesus unto them, 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, thither ye cannot come&quot;. He then went on to foretell how that out of His pierced side there would come the water of the Spirit. &ldquo;Where I am&quot; is parallel with &ldquo;I am going...&quot;. He was going to the cross, but He speaks as if He was there right then at that moment. The cross was ongoing in His life. His going unto the Father was how He understood going to the cross (13:1,3 make the connection clear). Later, the Jews would recollect Golgotha&rsquo;s scene and seek Him, but not find Him. There was a time for them to accept the cross, but there would come a time when they would not be able to accept it. This surely cannot refer to their mortal lives; for whoever comes to the Son, He will in no wise cast out. So it presumably means that at the judgment, as they wallow in the wretchedness of their condemnation, they will recall the cross and wish desperately to appropriate that salvation for themselves. They will seek Him, but be unable then to find Him. <br />&nbsp;</p>