19. Therefore, they said to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered: "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you did know me, perhaps you would know my Father also."
20. Jesus spoke these words at the treasury, while teaching in the temple. And no one apprehended him, because his hour had not yet come.
21. Therefore, Jesus again spoke to them: "I am going, and you shall seek me. And you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you are not able to go."
22. And so the Jews said, "Is he going to kill himself, for he said: 'Where I am going, you are not able to go?' "
23. And he said to them: "You are from below. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.
24. Therefore, I said to you, that you will die in your sins. For if you will not believe that I am, you will die in your sin."
25. And so they said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them: "The Beginning, who is also speaking to you.
26. I have much to say about you and to judge. But he who sent me is true. And what I have heard from him, this I speak within the world."
27. And they did not realize that he was calling God his Father.
28. And so Jesus said to them: "When you will have lifted up the Son of man, then you shall realize that I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but just as the Father has taught me, so do I speak.