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The Jews tried all the more to kill Him, not only because He had worked on the Day of Rest, but because He had also called God His Own Father. This made Him the same as God.

God has given Him the right and the power to say if people are guilty, because He is the Son of Man.

"I can do nothing by Myself. I say who is guilty only as My Father tells Me. That way, what I say is right, because I am not trying to do what I want to do. I am doing what the Father, Who sent Me, wants Me to do.

You do not have His Word living in your hearts because you do not put your trust in the One He sent.

"You do read the Holy Writings. You think you have life that lasts forever just because you read them. They do tell of Me.

The next day the people on the other side of the lake saw no other boat there but the one His followers had been in. The people knew Jesus had not gone with His followers in the boat because they had gone alone.

Jesus said to them, "For sure, I tell you, you are not looking for Me because of the powerful works. You are looking for Me because you ate bread and were filled.

The Jews talked among themselves against Him. They did not like it because He said, "I am the Bread that came down from heaven."

The living Father sent Me and I live because of Him. In the same way, the one who eats Me will live because of Me.

Jesus did not stay in the country of Judea because the Jews were trying to kill Him. After this He went from place to place in the country of Galilee.

The world cannot hate you but it hates Me. I speak against the world because of its sinful works.

I know Him because I am from Him and He sent Me."

Jesus spoke these words near the money box while He taught in the house of God. No one put his hands on Jesus because His time had not yet come.

The Jews said, "Will He kill Himself because He said, ‘Where I am going you cannot come' ?"

Jesus answered them, "For sure, I tell you, everyone who sins is the servant of sin because sin has a hold on him.

"I know that you are the children of Abraham. But you want to kill Me because My Word is not in your hearts.

Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you do not want to hear My teaching.

Whoever is born of God listens to God's Word. You do not hear His Word because you are not born of God."

Some of the proud religious law-keepers said, "The Man Who did this is not from God because He worked on the Day of Rest." Others said, "How can a sinful man do powerful works?" They could not agree about Jesus.

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. The Jews had talked among themselves. They had agreed that the person who said that Jesus was the Christ would be put out of the Jewish place of worship.