What does he mean by saying, ‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”
Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?”
You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.”
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
So some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?” So they were saying, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We do not know what he is talking about.”
So the crowd answered him, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”
The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?”
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