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But Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing alone. The Son does only what he sees the Father doing, because the Son does whatever the Father does.

And the Father has given the Son the approval to judge, because he is the Son of Man.

His teaching does not live in you, because you don't believe in the One the Father sent.

You carefully study the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. They do in fact tell about me,

If you really believed Moses, you would believe me, because Moses wrote about me.

Many people followed him because they saw the miracles he did to heal the sick.

(Jesus asked Philip this question to test him, because Jesus already knew what he planned to do.)

Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, you aren't looking for me because you saw me do miracles. You are looking for me because you ate the bread and were satisfied.

Don't work for the food that spoils. Work for the food that stays good always and gives eternal life. The Son of Man will give you this food, because on him God the Father has put his power."

Some people began to complain about Jesus because he said, "I am the bread that comes down from heaven."

The living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father. So whoever eats me will live because of me.

After this, Jesus traveled around Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because some evil people there wanted to kill him.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I tell it the evil things it does.

So you go to the feast. I will not go yet to this feast, because the right time for me has not yet come."

But no one was brave enough to talk about Jesus openly, because they were afraid of the elders.

But I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."

When Jesus said this, they tried to seize him. But no one was able to touch him, because it was not yet the right time.

Jesus was talking about the Holy Spirit. The Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been raised to glory. But later, those who believed in Jesus would receive the Spirit.

But when I do judge, I judge truthfully, because I am not alone. The Father who sent me is with me.

Jesus said these things while he was teaching in the Temple, near where the money is kept. But no one arrested him, because the right time for him had not yet come.