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Again he told them, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin -- where I am going, you cannot come."
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The Judeans said, "Is he going to commit suicide? Is that what he means when he says, `Where I am going, you cannot come'?"
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Yeshua said to them, "You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.
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This is why I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not trust that I AM [who I say I am], you will die in your sins."
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At this, they said to him, "You? Who are you?" Yeshua answered, "Just what I've been telling you from the start.
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There are many things I could say about you, and many judgments I could make. However, the One who sent me is true; so I say in the world only what I have heard from him."
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They did not understand that he was talking to them about the Father.
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So Yeshua said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM [who I say I am], and that of myself I do nothing, but say only what the Father has taught me.
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Also, the One who sent me is still with me; he did not leave me to myself, because I always do what pleases him."