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For even his brothers did not believe in him.

Go to the feast yourselves; I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come."

The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, "Where is he?"

Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.

I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me."

Now this he said about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive; for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Jesus answered, "Even if I do bear witness to myself, my testimony is true, for I know whence I have come and whither I am going, but you do not know whence I come or whither I am going.

Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone that judge, but I and he who sent me.

I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he."

And he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him."

The slave does not continue in the house for ever; the son continues for ever.

Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded and came forth from God; I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was a division among them.

but how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age, he will speak for himself."

His parents said this because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one should confess him to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.

So for the second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, "Give God the praise; we know that this man is a sinner."

We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from."

Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind."

When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.