18. If I taught my own ideas, I would just be trying to get honor for myself. But if I am trying to bring honor to the one who sent me, I can be trusted. Anyone doing that is not going to lie.
19. Moses gave you the law, right? But you don’t obey that law. If you do, then why are you trying to kill me?”
20. The people answered, “A demon is making you crazy! We are not trying to kill you.”
21. Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle on a Sabbath day, and you were all surprised.
22. But you obey the law Moses gave you about circumcision—and sometimes you do it on a Sabbath day. (Really, Moses is not the one who gave you circumcision. It came from our ancestors who lived before Moses.) Yes, you often circumcise baby boys on a Sabbath day.
23. This shows that someone can be circumcised on a Sabbath day to obey the Law of Moses. So why are you angry with me for healing a person’s whole body on the Sabbath day?
24. Stop judging by the way things look. Be fair and judge by what is really right.”
25. Then some of the people who lived in Jerusalem said, “This is the man they are trying to kill.
26. But he is teaching where everyone can see and hear him. And no one is trying to stop him from teaching. Maybe the leaders have decided that he really is the Messiah.
27. But when the real Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from. And we know where this man’s home is.”
28. Jesus was still teaching in the Temple area when he said loudly, “Do you really know me and where I am from? I am here, but not by my own decision. I was sent by one who is very real. But you don’t know him.
29. I know him because I am from him. He is the one who sent me.”
30. When Jesus said this, the people tried to grab him. But no one was able even to touch him, because the right time for him had not yet come.
31. But many of the people believed in Jesus. They said, “We are waiting for the Messiah to come. When he comes, will he do more miraculous signs than this man has done?”
32. The Pharisees heard what the people were saying about Jesus. So the leading priests and the Pharisees sent some Temple police to arrest him.
33. Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer. Then I will go back to the one who sent me.