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.
29. The One who sent me is with me. I always do what is pleasing to him. So he has not left me alone.”
30. While Jesus was saying these things, many people believed in him.
31. So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in him, “If you continue to obey my teaching, you are truly my followers.
32. Then you will know the truth. And the truth will make you free.”
33. They answered, “We are Abraham’s children. And we have never been slaves. So why do you say that we will be free?”
34. Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth. Everyone who lives in sin is a slave to sin.
35. A slave does not stay with a family forever, but a son belongs to the family forever.
36. So if the Son makes you free, then you will be truly free.
37. I know you are Abraham’s children. But you want to kill me because you don’t accept my teaching.