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At this the Jews there 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. He did not want to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders there were looking for a way to kill him.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil.

You go to the festival. I am not going up to this festival, because my time has not yet fully come."

Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a boy 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 hour had not yet come.

Thus the people were divided because of Jesus.

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

He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts near the place where the offerings were put. Yet no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.

I know that you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are looking for a way 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!

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue.

When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.

But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger's voice."

The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.

but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.

"We are not stoning you for any good work," they replied, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God."