19. The Pharisees asked him, “Where is your father?”Jesus replied, “You don’t know me or my Father. If you knew me, you would also know my Father.”
20. Jesus spoke these words while he was teaching in the treasury area of the temple courtyard. No one arrested him, because his time had not yet come.
21. Jesus spoke to the Pharisees again. He said, “I’m going away, and you’ll look for me. But you will die because of your sin. You can’t go where I’m going.”
22. Then the Jews asked, “Is he going to kill himself? Is that what he means when he says, ‘You can’t go where I’m going’?”
23. Jesus said to them, “You’re from below. I’m from above. You’re from this world. I’m not from this world.
24. For this reason I told you that you’ll die because of your sins. If you don’t believe that I am the one, you’ll die because of your sins.”
25. The Jews asked him, “Who did you say you are?”Jesus told them, “I am who I said I was from the beginning.
26. I have a lot I could say about you and a lot I could condemn you for. But the one who sent me is true. So I tell the world exactly what he has told me.”
27. (The Jews didn’t know that he was talking to them about the Father.)
28. So Jesus told them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you’ll know that I am the one and that I can’t do anything on my own. Instead, I speak as the Father taught me.
29. Besides, the one who sent me is with me. He hasn’t left me by myself. I always do what pleases him.”
30. As Jesus was saying this, many people believed in him.
31. So Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him, “If you live by what I say, you are truly my disciples.