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`Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice,

`I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

and His word ye have not remaining in you, because whom He sent, him ye do not believe.

`Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

and there was following him a great multitude, because they were seeing his signs that he was doing on the ailing;

Jesus answered them and said, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were satisfied;

because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me.

The Jews, therefore, were murmuring at him, because he said, `I am the bread that came down out of the heaven;'

`According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;

and he said, `Because of this I have said to you -- No one is able to come unto me, if it may not have been given him from my Father.'

And Jesus was walking after these things in Galilee, for he did not wish to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him,

the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

Ye -- go ye up to this feast; I do not yet go up to this feast, because my time hath not yet been fulfilled;'

because of this, Moses hath given you the circumcision -- not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers -- and on a sabbath ye circumcise a man;

and I have known Him, because I am from Him, and He did send me.'

They were seeking, therefore, to seize him, and no one laid the hand on him, because his hour had not yet come,

and this he said of the Spirit, which those believing in him were about to receive; for not yet was the Holy Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

A division, therefore, arose among the multitude because of him.

Jesus answered and said to them, `And if I testify of myself -- my testimony is true, because I have known whence I came, and whither I go, and ye -- ye have not known whence I come, or whither I go.

and even if I do judge my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me;