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And if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent Me judge together.

He spoke these words by the treasury, while teaching in the temple complex. But no one seized Him, because His hour had not come.

The One who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him."

I know you are descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to kill Me because My word is not welcome among you.

Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn't come on My own, but He sent Me.

Why don't you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to My word.

You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.

Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.

The one who is from God listens to God's words. This is why you don't listen, because you are not from God."

His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him as Messiah, he would be banned from the synagogue.

When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

They will never follow a stranger; instead they will run away from him, because they don't recognize the voice of strangers."

This happens because he is a hired man and doesn't care about the sheep.

This is why the Father loves Me, because I am laying down My life so I may take it up again.

Again a division took place among the Jews because of these words.

But you don't believe because you are not My sheep.

"We aren't stoning You for a good work," the Jews answered, "but for blasphemy, because You—being a man—make Yourself God."

do you say, ‘You are blaspheming' to the One the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?

"Aren't there 12 hours in a day?" Jesus answered. "If anyone walks during the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

If anyone walks during the night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him."