32 The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and
the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.
33 Then Yeshua said to them, “Yet
a little while am I with you, and then
I go to him that sent me.
34 You shall seek me, and shall not find [me]: and where I am, there you cannot
come.”
35 Then said the Judeans among themselves, where will he go that we shall not
find him? Will he go to the dispersed among the Gentiles?”
Why did they respond
by saying, “Will he go to the dispersed among the Gentiles?” They responded this
way because they knew that is what Messiah was to do; go to those who
were dispersed – the lost ten tribes.
This, however, was a confusing
thing, even to his disciples. They knew that Messiah was to bring about the
return of the northern kingdom, and yet Yeshua didn’t seem to accomplish this
task. Even during their last contact, the restoration of Israel was what they
were waiting for and expecting to happen.
Acts 1:6
6 When they
therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, will you at
this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
7 And he said to them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which
the Father has put in his own power.
Israel went into
captivity hundreds of years before this time. But they were to be restored at
the end of the age.