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.”
25. They asked, “Then who are you?”Jesus answered, “I am what I have told you from the beginning.
26. I have many things to say about you and to judge you for. But I tell people only the things I have heard from the One who sent me. And he speaks the truth.”
27. The people did not understand that Jesus was talking to them about the Father.
28. So Jesus said to them, “You will lift up the Son of Man. Then you will know that I am he. You will know that these things I do are not by my own authority. You will know that I say only what the Father has taught me.