15. You judge me the way you would judge any man. I don’t judge anyone.
16. But if I judge, I judge truthfully. When I judge, I am not alone. The Father who sent me is with me.
17. Your own law says that when two witnesses say the same thing, then you must accept what they say.
18. I am one of the witnesses who speaks about myself. And the Father who sent me is my other witness.”
19. They asked, “Where is your father?”Jesus answered, “You don’t know me or my Father. But if you knew me, then you would know my Father, too.”
20. Jesus said these things while he was teaching in the Temple. He was near the place where the money that the people give is kept. But no one arrested him. The right time for Jesus had not yet come.
21. Again, Jesus said to the people, “I will leave you. You will look for me, but you will die in your sins. You cannot come where I am going.”
22. So the Jews asked, “Will he kill himself? Is that why he said, ‘You cannot come where I am going’?”
23. But Jesus said, “You people are from here below. But I am from above. You belong to this world, but I don’t belong to this world.
24. So I told you that you would die in your sins. Yes, you will die in your sins if you don’t believe that I am he.”