John 13:33

τέκνια. Nowhere else in the Gospels does Christ use this expression of tender affection, which springs from the thought of His orphaned disciples. S. John appears never to have forgotten it. It occurs frequently in his First Epistle (1 John 2:1; 1 John 2:12; 1 John 2:28; 1 John 3:7; 1 John 3:18; 1 John 4:4; 1 John 5:21), and perhaps nowhere else in the N.T. In Galatians 4:19 the reading is doubtful. Comp. παίδια, John 21:5. for ἔτι μικρὸν see on John 7:33-34; John 8:21.

ζητήσετέ με. Christ does not add, as He did to the Jews, ‘and shall not find Me,’ still less, ‘ye shall die in your sin.’ Rather, ‘ye shall seek Me: and though ye cannot come whither I go, yet ye shall find Me by continuing to be My disciples and loving one another.’ The expression οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι is rare in Christ’s discourses (John 4:22; John 18:20; John 18:36): in these cases the idea of nationality prevails over that of hostility to the Messiah.