none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
I find this verse fascinating. Peter had asked Jesus exactly this just hours before, in John 13:36!
So what does Jesus mean?
I think He means, you’re focused on your own pain at losing Me, at what God’s people (the Sanhedrin) are about to do to Me (see John 16:6), not on God’s plan, to glorify Himself. Peter asks “Where are you going?” because he doesn’t want bad things to happen. He should have been happy Jesus was going to the Father, but all he/we can think about is our own pain at feeling the absence of His presence when we are mistreated or just wounded (John 14:28).
That is a hard lesson to learn in affliction, but an important one. Jesus feels distant in our hard times, but He is not.
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