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do you go up to this feast, as for me I do not go with you to it, because my time is not yet accomplished.

and the people were much divided about him: for some said, he is a good man: others said, not at all; but he seduces the people.

However, no body talk'd openly in favour of him, for fear of the Jews.

for what do ye attempt to kill me? the people answered, saying, you are mad: who attempts to kill you?

but I know him, for I am from him, and he hath sent me.

then said Jesus, I shall be with you but for a little time, and then I shall go to him that sent me.

(but this he meant of the spirit, which they that believed on him, should receive: for the spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

Jesus answered them, though I give testimony of my self, yet my testimony is valid: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but you do not know whence I came, nor whither I go.

and yet if I did judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I am with the father who has sent me.

Jesus delivered this discourse in the treasury, when he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him, for his hour was not yet come.

therefore I said to you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if you don't believe me to be what I am, ye shall die in your sins.

he that sent me, is with me: the father hath not left me alone, for I always do what is agreeable to him.

a slave has no right to be in the house for life: but the son is settled there.

Jesus said to them, if God were your father, ye would love me: for I was commissioned by God to come; I did not come of my self, but he sent me.

you, who have the devil for your father, will execute the designs of your father: he was a murderer from the beginning, and deserted the truth, since he has no love for the truth: when he lyes, he speaks like himself: for he is a lyar, and the father of a lyar.

and his disciples propos'd to him this question, master, was it for his own sins, or for the sins of his parents, that he was born blind?

it was not for any sin of his, said Jesus, or of his parents: but that the works of God might be displayed thro' him.

but the Jews were so incredulous about his having been blind, and obtain'd sight, that they sent for his parents,

but by what means it was that he now sees, that we know not; or who made him see, we know not: he is of age, ask him, he will answer for himself.

his parents said this, because they were afraid of the Jews: for the Jews had agreed in this, that if any man did own him for the Messias, he should be excommunicated.