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Then they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

But many in the crowd believed in him and said, "When the Messiah comes, will he perform more miracles than this man has?"

You will look for me, but you will not find me, because you cannot go where I will be."

He says that we will look for him but will not find him, and that we cannot go where he will be. What does he mean?"

Others said, "He is the Messiah!" But others said, "The Messiah will not come from Galilee!

Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.

Then everyone went home, but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

They said this to trap Jesus, so that they could accuse him. But he bent over and wrote on the ground with his finger.

"No one, sir," she answered. "Well, then," Jesus said, "I do not condemn you either. Go, but do not sin again."]

But if I were to do so, my judgment would be true, because I am not alone in this; the Father who sent me is with me.

Again Jesus said to them, "I will go away; you will look for me, but you will die in your sins. You cannot go where I am going."

Jesus answered, "You belong to this world here below, but I come from above. You are from this world, but I am not from this world.

So he said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, you will know that ‘I Am Who I Am'; then you will know that I do nothing on my own authority, but I say only what the Father has instructed me to say.

A slave does not belong to a family permanently, but a son belongs there forever.

I talk about what my Father has shown me, but you do what your father has told you."

Jesus said to them, "If God really were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and now I am here. I did not come on my own authority, but he sent me.

But I tell the truth, and that is why you do not believe me.

"I have no demon," Jesus answered. "I honor my Father, but you dishonor me.

I am not seeking honor for myself. But there is one who is seeking it and who judges in my favor.

You have never known him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his word.