John 8:22

‘The Judaisers therefore said, “Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, ‘where I am going you cannot come'?”

Jesus' statement ‘where I am going you cannot come' then made them ask themselves whether it was His intention to kill Himself. This is pointed irony. Even while they were seeking His death they were avoiding the issue even among themselves, and pretending that they had no such aims. They still seemed to think that He was not aware of what their true aims were. When men have reached such depths of folly and blindness there is little hope from them. And yet one among their number would one day become the Apostle to the Gentiles.