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Yeshua answered, "If I praise myself, my praise counts for nothing. The One who is praising me is my Father, the very one about whom you keep saying, ‘He is our God.'

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.

So a second time they called the man who had been blind; and they said to him, "Swear to God that you will tell the truth! We know that this man is a sinner."

We know that God has spoken to Moshe, but as for this fellow — we don't know where he's from!"

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners; but if anyone fears God and does his will, God does listen to him.

If this man were not from God, he couldn't do a thing!"

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 ."

On hearing it, he said, "This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God's glory, so that the Son of God may receive glory through it."

Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you."

She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world."

Yeshua said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you keep trusting, you will see the glory of God?"

and not for the nation alone, but so that he might gather into one the scattered children of God.

for they loved praise from other people more than praise from God.

Yeshua was aware that the Father had put everything in his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God.

After Y'hudah had left, Yeshua said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.

If the Son has glorified God, God will himself glorify the Son, and will do so without delay.

"Don't let yourselves be disturbed. Trust in God and trust in me.

They will ban you from the synagogue; in fact, the time will come when anyone who kills you will think he is serving God!

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

Now we know that you know everything, and that you don't need to have people put their questions into words. This makes us believe that you came from God."