37. And the Father who sent me has given proof about me himself. But you have never heard his voice. You have never seen what he looks like.
38. The Father’s teaching does not live in you, because you don’t believe in the one the Father sent.
39. You carefully study the Scriptures. You think that they give you eternal life. These same Scriptures tell about me!
40. But you refuse to come to me to have that life.
41. “I don’t want praise from you or any other human.
42. But I know you—I know that you have no love for God.
43. I have come from my Father and speak for him, but you don’t accept me. But when other people come speaking only for themselves, you accept them.
44. You like to have praise from each other. But you never try to get the praise that comes from the only God. So how can you believe?
45. Don’t think that I will be the one to stand before the Father and accuse you. Moses is the one to accuse you. And he is the one you hoped would save you.
46. If you really believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.
47. But you don’t believe what he wrote, so you can’t believe what I say.”