17. Even in your law it is written that the testimony of two men can be verified.
18. I testify on my behalf and so does the Father who sent me.”
19. So they said to him, “Where is your father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
20. He spoke these words while teaching in the treasury in the temple area. But no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
21. He said to them again, “I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.”
22. So the Jews said, “He is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, ‘Where I am going you cannot come’?”
23. He said to them, “You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world.
24. That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins.”
25. So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “What I told you from the beginning.
26. I have much to say about you in condemnation. But the one who sent me is true, and what I heard from him I tell the world.”
27. They did not realize that he was speaking to them of the Father.
28. So Jesus said (to them), “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own, but I say only what the Father taught me.