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I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived."

Then Jesus said, "I will be with you for only a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.

You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come."

What did he mean by saying, ‘You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come'?"

Then Jesus spoke out again, "I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going.

But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

Then Jesus said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come."

So the Jewish leaders began to say, "Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.'"

Jesus replied, "You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

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

Then 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 just what the Father taught me.

I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!"

Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

Why don't you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.

But because I am telling you the truth, you do not believe me.

Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don't you believe me?

Jesus answered, "I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father—and yet you dishonor me.