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Also, the One who sent me is still with me; he did not leave me to myself, because I always do what pleases him."

I know you are the seed of Avraham. Yet you are out to kill me, because what I am saying makes no headway in you.

Yeshua replied to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me; because I came out from God; and now I have arrived here. I did not come on my own; he sent me.

Why don't you understand what I'm saying? Because you can't bear to listen to my message.

You belong to your father, Satan, and you want to carry out your father's desires. From the start he was a murderer, and he has never stood by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he is speaking in character; because he is a liar — indeed, the inventor of the lie!

But as for me, because I tell the truth you don't believe me.

At this, some of the P'rushim said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep Shabbat." But others said, "How could a man who is a sinner do miracles like these?" And there was a split among them.

The parents said this because they were afraid of the Judeans, for the Judeans had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged Yeshua as the Messiah would be banned from the synagogue.

After taking out all that are his own, he goes on ahead of them; and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

They never follow a stranger but will run away from him, because strangers' voices are unfamiliar to them."

The hired worker behaves like this because that's all he is, a hired worker; so it doesn't matter to him what happens to the sheep.

"This is why the Father loves me: because I lay down my life — in order to take it up again!

Again there was a split among the Judeans because of what he said.

The Judeans replied, "We are not stoning you for any good deed, but for blasphemy — because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be God ."

then are you telling the one whom the Father set apart as holy and sent into the world, ‘You are committing blasphemy,' just because I said, ‘I am a son of Elohim'?

Yeshua answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a person walks during daylight, he doesn't stumble; because he sees the light of this world.

But if a person walks at night, he does stumble; because he has no light with him."

I myself know that you always hear me, but I say this because of the crowd standing around, so that they may believe that you have sent me."

Now he said this not out of concern for the poor, but because he was a thief — he was in charge of the common purse and used to steal from it.

A large crowd of Judeans learned that he was there; and they came not only because of Yeshua, but also so that they could see El‘azar, whom he had raised from the dead.