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"I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

"You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;

A large crowd followed Him, because they saw the signs which He was performing on those who were sick.

The sea began to be stirred up because a strong wind was blowing.

Jesus answered them and said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled.

Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, "I am the bread that came down out of heaven."

"As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.

After these things Jesus was walking in Galilee, for He was unwilling to walk in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill Him.

"The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.

"Go up to the feast yourselves; I do not go up to this feast because My time has not yet fully come."

"For this reason Moses has given you circumcision (not because it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man.

"If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses will not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made an entire man well on the Sabbath?

"I know Him, because I am from Him, and He sent Me."

So they were seeking to seize Him; and no man laid his hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

So a division occurred in the crowd because of Him.

These words He spoke in the treasury, as He taught in the temple; and no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.

"I know that you are Abraham's descendants; yet you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you.

"Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word.

"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.