Study Desk

But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and began to teach.

So Jesus answered them and said, "My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me.

"He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

"For this reason Moses has given you circumcision (not because it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man.

"Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment."

"However, we know where this man is from; but whenever the Christ may come, no one knows where He is from."

Then Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know Me and know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.

But many of the crowd believed in Him; and they were saying, "When the Christ comes, He will not perform more signs than those which this man has, will He?"

But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

"But this crowd which does not know the Law is accursed."

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

They were saying this, testing Him, so that they might have grounds for accusing Him. But Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground.

But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up, and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."

Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, "I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life."

Jesus answered and said to them, "Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

"But even if I do judge, My judgment is true; for I am not alone in it, but I and the Father who sent Me.

"I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and the things which I heard from Him, these I speak to the world."

So Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me.

"But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do.