This passage is often misinterpreted as Jesus contemplating or planning suicide, prompted by the Jews' literal question, but it actually refers to his heavenly departure that unbelievers cannot follow; another error views it solely as a statement about physical death without recognizing the eternal, salvific context of separation from God due to unrepentant sin; or it is wrongly applied today to endorse self-harm or despair, ignoring Jesus' victorious resurrection and the call to faith.
John 8:22
King James Version (1769)
22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.
Jesus declares his impending departure to the Father through his death, resurrection, and ascension, a path inaccessible to the unbelieving Jews who reject him and persist in sin, highlighting the profound spiritual separation between those who follow him in faith and those who do not, underscoring that true access to eternal life requires belief in him as the way, truth, and life.