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Jesus replied: Even if I do speak for myself, what I say is true! I know where I came from and where I am going. But you don't know where I am from or where I am going.

Jesus also told them, "I am going away, and you will look for me. But you cannot go where I am going, and you will die with your sins unforgiven."

That is why I said you will die with your sins unforgiven. If you don't have faith in me for who I am, you will die, and your sins will not be forgiven."

Jesus replied: I tell you for certain that anyone who sins is a slave of sin!

Instead, you want to kill me for telling you the truth that God gave me. Abraham never did anything like that.

I don't want honor for myself. But there is one who wants me to be honored, and he is also the one who judges.

I tell you for certain that if you obey my words, you will never die."

Jesus answered, "I tell you for certain that even before Abraham was, I was, and I am."

"No, it wasn't!" Jesus answered. "But because of his blindness, you will see God work a miracle for him.

While I am in the world, I am the light for the world."

But the Jewish leaders would not believe that the man had once been blind. They sent for his parents

But we don't know how he got his sight or who gave it to him. Ask him! He is old enough to speak for himself."

Jesus said: I tell you for certain that only thieves and robbers climb over the fence instead of going in through the gate to the sheep pen.

But the gatekeeper opens the gate for the shepherd, and he goes in through it. The sheep know their shepherd's voice. He calls each of them by name and leads them out.

Jesus said: I tell you for certain that I am the gate for the sheep.

I am the good shepherd, and the good shepherd gives up his life for his sheep.

Just as the Father knows me, I know the Father, and I give up my life for my sheep.

That winter, Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Temple Festival.

But he said, "I have shown you many good things that my Father sent me to do. Which one are you going to stone me for?"

So why do you accuse me of a terrible sin for saying that I am the Son of God? After all, it is the Father who prepared me for this work. He is also the one who sent me into the world.