John 8:22
 John 8:22 
New International Version (©2011)
This made the Jews ask, "Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, 'Where I go, you cannot come'?"

New Living Translation (©2007)
The people asked, "Is he planning to commit suicide? What does he mean, 'You cannot come where I am going'?"

English Standard Version (©2001)
So the Jews said, “Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So the Jews were saying, "Surely He will not kill Himself, will He, since He says, 'Where I am going, you cannot come '?"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So the Jews said again, "He won't kill Himself, will He, since He says, Where I'm going, you cannot come?"

International Standard Version (©2012)
So the Jewish leaders were asking, "He isn't going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said, 'You cannot come where I'm going'?"

NET Bible (©2006)
So the Jewish leaders began to say, "Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, 'Where I am going you cannot come.'"

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
The Judeans were saying, “Will he now kill himself?”, because he had said, “Where I am going, you cannot come.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then the Jews asked, "Is he going to kill himself? Is that what he means when he says, 'You can't go where I'm going'?"

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he said, Where I go, you cannot come.

American King James Version
Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he said, Where I go, you cannot come.

American Standard Version
The Jews therefore said, Will he kill himself, that he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come?

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Jews therefore said: Will he kill himself, because he said: Whither I go, you cannot come?

Darby Bible Translation
The Jews therefore said, Will he kill himself, that he says, Where I go ye cannot come?

English Revised Version
The Jews therefore said, Will he kill himself, that he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come?

Webster's Bible Translation
Then said the Jews, will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.

Weymouth New Testament
The Jews began to ask one another, "Is he going to kill himself, do you think, that he says, 'Where I am going, it is impossible for you to come'?"

World English Bible
The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you can't come?'"

Young's Literal Translation
The Jews, therefore, said, 'Will he kill himself, because he saith, Whither I go away, ye are not able to come?'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:21-29 Those that live in unbelief, are for ever undone, if they die in unbelief. The Jews belonged to this present evil world, but Jesus was of a heavenly and Divine nature, so that his doctrine, kingdom, and blessings, would not suit their taste. But the curse of the law is done away to all that submit to the grace of the gospel. Nothing but the doctrine of Christ's grace will be an argument powerful enough, and none but the Spirit of Christ's grace will be an agent powerful enough, to turn us from sin to God; and that Spirit is given, and that doctrine is given, to work upon those only who believe in Christ. Some say, Who is this Jesus? They allow him to have been a Prophet, an excellent Teacher, and even more than a creature; but cannot acknowledge him as over all, God blessed for evermore. Will not this suffice? Jesus here answers the question. Is this to honour him as the Father? Does this admit his being the Light of the world, and the Life of men, one with the Father? All shall know by their conversion, or in their condemnation, that he always spake and did what pleased the Father, even when he claimed the highest honours to himself.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 22. - The Jews therefore said (were saying one to the other), Will he kill himself, that (because) he saith, Whither I go, thither ye cannot come? This query was one of harsh mockery, and can hardly be exaggerated in malign intent. The suicide was supposed to have his place in Gehenna, According to Josephus ('Bell. Jud.,' 3:08. 5), "the darkest regions of Hades would receive the souls of such." The Jews then scoff at his departure as a spontaneous resort to a fate towards which they did rot care or mean to follow him. Edersheim declares this passage of Josephus not to be sustained by rabbinical authority, and he doubts this aspect of their scorn. He limits it to the Jewish guess that Jesus must be contemplating self. murder, and as putting deliberately such a distance between them and him that they could not traverse it. The very fact that they had it in their hearts to destroy him makes it probable that they were looking beyond the act of suicide, either to the hell of popular belief or the hatred of contemporaries. They obviously thought that none but a suicide can determine the time of his departure. Christ proceeded to show them that the reason why his death would separate them from him was a fundamental difference of nature.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then said the Jews, will he kill himself?.... Which was not only a wicked, but a foolish consequence, drawn from his words: for it by no means followed, because he was going away, and whither they could not come, that therefore he must destroy himself; this seems to be what they would have been glad he would have done, and suggested the thought that he might do it, in which they imitated Satan, Matthew 4:6, under whose influence they now apparently were, and hoped that he would, which would at once extricate them out of their difficulties on his account:

because he sayeth, whither I go ye cannot come: this is no reason at all; for had Christ's meaning been, as they blasphemously intimate, they might have destroyed themselves too, and have gone after him.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

22. Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself?—seeing something more in His words than before (Joh 7:35), but their question more malignant and scornful.


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Jesus the Light of the World
21Then said Jesus again to them, I go my way, and you shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: where I go, you cannot come. 22Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he said, Where I go, you cannot come. 23And he said to them, You are from beneath; I am from above: you are of this world; I am not of this world. …

John 1:19 Now this was John's testimony when the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was.
John 7:35 The Jews said to one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
John 8:48 The Jews answered him, "Aren't we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?"
John 8:52 At this they exclaimed, "Now we know that you are demon-possessed! Abraham died and so did the prophets, yet you say that whoever obeys your word will never taste death.