Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles? — the authorities misunderstand Jesus's words, interpreting them physically: they wonder if he plans to go to the 'dispersed' (diaspora) Jews and teach Gentiles. The irony is thick: they construe his return to the Father as a mere geographical departure. Yet the comment is not entirely wrong—the Gospel will be taken to Gentiles and the diaspora, though not by Jesus in the flesh but through his apostles after the resurrection.

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