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Because Moses gave you circumcision, (not that it was from Moses, but it was from the fathers,) ye circumcise a child on the sabbath.

And if a child is circumcised on the sabbath day, that the law of Moses may not be violated, do ye murmur at me, because I have made a man entirely sound on the sabbath day?

but I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me.

And they sought to apprehend him; but no one laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

(This he said of the Spirit, which they who believe in him were to receive: for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

Jesus answered and said to them: Although I bear witness of myself, my testimony is certain, because I know whence I came, and whither I go. But ye do not know, whence I came, and whither I go.

Yet if I Judge, my judgment is certain, because I am not alone, but I and my Father who sent me.

These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no one laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

And he that sent me, is with me; and my Father hath not left me alone, because I do, at all times, that which pleaseth him.

I know that ye are the children of Abraham; but ye seek to kill me, because ye do not acquiesce in my word.

Why do ye not understand my speech? It is because ye cannot hear my speech.

But me, because I speak the truth, ye believe me not.

He that is of God, heareth the words of God. Therefore ye do not hear, because ye are not of God.

These things said his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had decided, that if any one should confess him to be Messiah, they would expel him from the synagogue.

And when he hath led out his flock, he goeth before it; and his sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

But after a stranger the flock will not follow, but it fleeth from him; because it knoweth not the voice of a stranger.

And a hireling fleeth, because he is a hireling, and hath no concern for the flock.

There is no one that taketh it from me; but I lay it down of my own pleasure: for I have authority to lay it down, and authority to resume it again; because I have received this command from my Father.

But ye do not believe, because ye are not of my sheep, as I have said to you.

The Jews said to him: It is not on account of good works, that we stone thee: but because thou blasphemest; and, whilst thou art a man, thou makest thyself God.