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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Yet a little while am I with you." Having power to bow and terrify His hearers, He uttereth words full of humility. As though He had said, "Why are ye eager to persecute and kill Me? Wait a little while, and even though you should be eager to keep Me back, I shall not endure it." That no one should (as they did) suppose that the, "Yet a little while am I with you," denoted a common death, that no one might suppose this, or that He wrought nothing after death, He added, "And where I am, thither ye cannot come." Now had He been about …
Cyril of Alexandria
The Lord is not ignorant, inasmuch as He is by Nature God, of the Pharisees' bloodthirsty deeds of daring, and of the unholy design of the chief priests against Himself. For with the Eyes of Deity He beholds now present and mingled with the multitudes, the servants who had been chosen by them to take Him. Therefore He makes His answer common indeed as to all the people standing round, yet having a special answer to them, and at the same time teaches much that is profitable. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
And the Lord speaks words full of humility: "Yet a little while am I with you." "Why," He says, "do you concern yourselves with My departure, why do you persecute Me? Wait a little while, and I will be taken away, even if you did not wish to seize Me." "I am with you." Although you persecute and drive Me out, I am with you: arranging and speaking what serves your good and salvation. And I "will go to Him who sent Me." Here He frightens them by the fact that they will offend Him who sent Him. …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
Not being able to take Him against His will, they sent men to hear Him teach. Teach what? Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while I am with you. (Tract. xxxi. 8) That which ye wish to do now, ye shall do sometime, but not now: because it is not My will. For I wish to fulfil My mission in due course, and so to come to My passion.
Bede
I go to Him that sent Me: i. e. I return to My Father, at whose command I became incarnate. He is speaking of that departure, from which He has never returned.
Thomas Aquinas
After our Lord told the principle of his origin, he then mentions his end, i.e., where he would go by dying. First, the end of Christ's life is given; secondly, we see that the people are puzzled by what he says (v 35). As to the first he does three things. First, the end of his life is mentioned; secondly, he predicts what they will desire in the future (v 34); and thirdly, he mentions one of their deficiencies (v 34b). He does two things about the first. …
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