16. Even if I do judge, my judgment is truthful, because I’m not alone. My judgments come from me and from the Father who sent me.
17. In your Law it is written that the witness of two people is true.
18. I am one witness concerning myself, and the Father who sent me is the other."
19. They asked him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You don’t know me and you don’t know my Father. If you knew me, you would also know my Father."
20. He spoke these words while he was teaching in the temple area known as the treasury. No one arrested him, because his time hadn’t yet come.
21. Jesus continued, "I’m going away. You will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I’m going, you can’t come."
22. The Jewish leaders said, "He isn’t going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said, ‘Where I’m going, you can’t come’?"
23. He said to them, "You are from below; I’m from above. You are from this world; I’m not from this world.
24. This is why I told you that you would die in your sins. If you don’t believe that I Am, you will die in your sins."