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

But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing [fn] in Him would receive; for the Holy [fn] Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

So there was a division among the people because of Him.

So the Jews said, "Will He kill Himself, because He says, "Where I go you cannot come'?"

"I know that you are Abraham's descendants, but you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you.

Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.

You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.

He who is of God hears God's words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God."

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

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

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed that He was Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.

"Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again.

Therefore there was a division again among the Jews because of these sayings.

But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. [fn]

The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."

do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, "You are blaspheming,' because I said, "I am the Son of God'?

Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."