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Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

and he has granted the Son authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.

"Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

If you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.

A large crowd was following him because they were observing the miraculous signs he was performing on the sick.

Then Jesus, because he knew they were going to come and seize him by force to make him king, withdrew again up the mountainside alone.

Jesus replied, "I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted.

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began complaining 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 consumes me will live because of me.

So Jesus added, "Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come."

After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.

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."

However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me."