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So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews persecuted him.

Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.

And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.

You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me,

and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the miraculous signs he had performed on the sick.

Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, you are looking for me, not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.

At this the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.

After this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying away from Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take his life.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that what it does is evil.

You go to the Feast. I am not yet going up to this Feast, because for me the right time has not yet come."

Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a child on the Sabbath.

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

At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

Thus the people were divided because of Jesus.

But if I do judge, my decisions are right, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me.

"You do not know me or my Father," Jesus replied. "If you knew me, you would know my Father also." He spoke these words while teaching in the temple area near the place where the offerings were put. Yet no one seized him, because his time had not yet come.

I know you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are ready to kill me, because you have no room for my word.

Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.

Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!