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The world cannot hate you; but it hates Me because I witness about it, that its works are evil.

However, no one publicly spoke about Him, because of the fear of the Jews.

Because of this Moses has given you circumcision; (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and on a sabbath, you circumcise a man.

If a man receives circumcision on a sabbath, that the Law of Moses is not broken, are you angry with Me because I made a man whole and healthy on a sabbath?

But I know Him, because I am from Him; and He sent Me.

Then they sought to seize Him; yet no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

But He said this concerning the Spirit, whom the ones believing into Him were about to receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given , because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Then a division occurred in the crowd because of Him.

But even if I judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent Me.

Then the Jews said, Will He kill Himself, because He says, Where I go, you are not able to come?

I know that you are Abraham's seed, but you seek to kill Me, because My Word is not given room in you.

Why do you not know My speech? It is because you are not able to hear My Word.

You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you desire to do. That one was a murderer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaksfrom his own, because he is a liar, and the father of it.

And because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.

The one who is of God hears the Words of God; for this reason you do not hear, because you are not of God.

Because of this, they took up stones that they might throw them on Him. But Jesus was hidden, and went forth out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

Then some of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, because He does not keep the sabbath. Others said, How can a man, a sinner, do such miraculous signs? And there was a division among them.

They said to the blind one again, What do you say about Him, because He opened your eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Him as Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.

Because of this, his parents said, He is of age, ask him.