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Then Jesus cried out as he was teaching in the temple, "You know me, and you know where I am from. I have not come on my own. But the one who sent me is true, and you do not know him.

Then they tried to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come.

You will search for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come."

Others said, "This is the Messiah." But some asked, "Surely the Messiah does not come from Galilee, does he?

Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

But this crowd, which does not know the law—they are accursed."

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life."

Jesus answered, "Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid because I know where I have come from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is valid; for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.

He spoke these words while he was teaching in the treasury of the temple, but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

Again he said to them, "I am going away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come."

I have much to say about you and much to condemn; but the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."

So Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own, but I speak these things as the Father instructed me.

but now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.

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

But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.

Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon; but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

though you do not know him. But I know him; if I would say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him and I keep his word.

So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

Some were saying, "It is he." Others were saying, "No, but it is someone like him." He kept saying, "I am the man."