Officers Sent To Arrest Jesus
John 7:32-36
32 The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. 33 Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me. 34 You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.” 35 The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? 36 What does he mean by saying, ‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”
Jesus tells that crowd that where He is going will be impossible for them to follow. He is speaking of His resurrection and ascension into heaven, but they take Him literally and wonder if He is going to go to the Jews who live around the Mediterranean region and who speak Greek.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
The irony is that the gospel message does in fact spread around the Greek-speaking parts of the Mediterranean after the ascension of Jesus.